[ApplegateRanch]

But those ‘smokey back rooms’ are so..UNDEMOCRATIC!

I miss those floor fights, too. I watched Kennedy/Johnson.

I even got to see & hear a bit of the ‘56 Dem convention, between newscasts & radio coverage.

I miss it; it embodied the brokering & horse trading of politics for all to see, rather than this modern primary vote pandering.

[johnwcassell]

I remember a vice-presidential skirmish at the ‘52 Democrat Convention between Kennedy and Kefauver but I guess it was more symbolic than real.

I saw the ‘56 Republican convention too...I kept hearing “California Here I Come”. BOY talk about long gone days...