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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 05:36:20 JST Evan Prodromou

   Political pundits only want one thing* and I think it's disgusting

   * an open convention

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 12:07:08 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • tlariv

     @tlariv Seriously. I don't get why the chattering class spends so much time imagining a way to get to a brokered convention. It might be just the boredom of slogging through 18 months of presidential campaign coverage. Making up weird scenarios is a way to pass the time while the tedious but mostly predictable machinery of primary politics grinds away week after week.

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     tlariv@mastodon.cloud's status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 12:07:09 JST tlariv

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     In Chicago. We've seen how this plays out.

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     M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 22:27:50 JST M. Grégoire

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     @evan I was a delegate at a leadership convention in 2003, in Toronto. It's a perfectly legitimate process, and a lot of fun for party activists as well as the media.

     But in the case you're thinking of, I think the real issue is not that pundits want an exciting convention, it's that they want a candidate with a higher likelihood of victory.

     #uspol