A Boston Marathon for the Dems?
Robert Kuttner lays out a scenario for the Democratic Party that goes to the convention without a clear winner. He cites three factors at work to produce this result: (1) Proportional representation has replaced the winner-takes-all of a state's delegates' (2) a persistent field that may lose a few in the near run but not so many as to reduce it to two; (3) flukey frontloading of the primaries themselves
If I'm right, what does this portend? For the Democrats, it's part bad news, part good news. The bad news is that the circular firing squad goes on another six months. The good news is that the race starts generating real excitement.
His vision of what unfolds in Boston next summer in the nation next fall is one that I find attractive. Have a read and file it where you can find it later.
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