And now, for something completely different: Gov. Phil Bredesen (D-Tenn.) has thought up a way to end the Democratic primary race. According to Politico, he wants the super delegates to hold their own convention after the state primaries are over but before the regular convention in August. Huh?
He was in Washington this week to promote his idea for holding a “superdelegate primary†in June, in which the 795 party bigwigs would gather to hear one last time from Clinton and Obama before casting a final vote.
Rather than allow the horse-trading and bloodletting go on all summer, he’d get it over with during a two-day business meeting in a neutral, easily reached city like Dallas.
“Invite the candidates to come and talk if they want, and then literally call the roll,†he explained. “We should not go through the summer and have a divided and exhausted Democratic Party. The inescapable conclusion is: OK, you’ve got to find some way to bookend and bring it to closure earlier. How do you do that? Do it in June rather than August.”
The idea is gaining traction, the site says. If it happens, people in the other 48 states can find out what it feels like to vote in Florida and Michigan: ignored.
What exactly is the point of the August convention?
