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trackfan

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2. It would be fascinating if it happened.

Reply to Old and In the Way (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 12, 2011, 01:56 PM

Dec 2011

The conventions have become such staged, television-commercial spectacles, that it seems the party and the media wouldn't know what to do if one became an actual, free-for-all, newsmaking event.

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Talk about brokered GOP 2012 convention made me recall California credentials battle at 1972 Dem. [View all] trackfan Dec 2011 OP

Very interesting. I saw a movie on TCM awhile back with Henry Fonda and Cliff Robinson Old and In the Way Dec 2011 #1

It would be fascinating if it happened. trackfan Dec 2011 #2