Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Jonathan Bernstein: The bogus convention attendance story

Please, please, please: no one cares — and no one should care — whether Members of Congress and other candidates plan to show up at their party’s national convention.

The press keeps reporting on this or that public official’s plan to attend or not attend; the latest reports tell us that the Republican nominee for Senate from Virginia, George Allen, isn’t going. But really, none of this is news. We’re told that candidates will be attacked whether they go (they must support everything the nominee has ever said or done!) or not (they’re rejecting the nominee!). I’m highly skeptical of that. Yes, the other campaign may send out a press release or perhaps go as far as posting a video on the web, because if the campaign is fully funded and staffed, there’s probably some excess capacity, and people need something to do.

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