Still, it's on to the conventions. Well, the Democratic convention will be a bore, unless you like that sort of thing. There will be a bit of mystery to the Republican convention. One innovation will be that the Republicans are broadcasting gavel to gavel coverage of their convention on Pat Robertson's CBN channel. This is very interesting.
Conventions are like high school football pep rallies for the faithful.
So the Republicans are going to hold an electronic pep rally to try to expand their audience by putting it on cable watched by social conservatives and party activists, which I think is very clever use of the media. The party is not after these viewers' votes. They want the party faithful to work in the fall campaign. But they also don't want their party regulars to watch the convention on network television, where the anchors spend their time debunking the candidate and so on. Well, Bob Dole will continue to search for something to talk about.