Convention Confession

Last updated on: July 20, 2016 at 11:12 am by Jacob Lupfer

Convention Confession 2016-07-20T11:12:02-04:00 Jacob Lupfer

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A little bit of political science snobbery: Political conventions are meaningless media spectacles with no significant impact on campaigns or elections. If you love partisans’ navel gazing or media self-congratulation, then by all means, watch conventions from start to finish. But they only marginally affect parties’ trajectories. Political conventions, whether carefully scripted coronations or contentious free-for-alls, waste media resources, news coverage, and column inches.

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I find party conventions to be boring and inconsequential to the point of being unworthy of comment. But now that I dabble in punditry, I see that many of you fine folks would like to read my take on the goings-on in Cleveland.

So, stay tuned…

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