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Michael Barone

Can We Have an Old-Fashioned Democratic National Convention?

April 15, 2008 01:14 PM ET | Michael Barone | Permanent Link | Print

My answer, in USA Today, is no.

Tags: Democrats | presidential election 2008

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Both Party Platforms Must Have Land Value Tax/Land Value Capture System

As I said in subject heading, WE ALL American Citizens MUST STRONGLY DEMAND they include the Land Value Tax/Land Value Capture System, NOT ONLY at the Federal level, AND also at the state and local levels NOT just small/meduim cities and towns, AND ALL of our DYING, DEPRESSED cities!!! A typical piece of VALUABLE vacant land in downtown, up-and coming gentrified area neighborhoods of our large cities like Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia/Pittsburgh, Pa., and L.A., Ca., are notonly typically undervalued, AND undertaxed by as much as $30 to $50,000 Dollars, typically a signal for absentee and on-site land owners, to monopolize/speculate AND land bank their own land!!! Case in point: I'm tring to interest TWO (2) VERY IMPORTANT Chicago leader's to become involved with me in pusuading MY mayor, R.M. Daley to stop using and abolish his TIF Districts and introduce and propose a LVT/LVC System for Chicago, AND the ENTIRE state of Illinois, yet I'm afraid both the governor and state legislator's are not interested in what I have say!!!! I've been tring to persuade political leaders at the federal, state, and local levels since 17 year4 month's ago!!! I NEED and WANT PUBLIC SUPPORT in this project!!!! Before Mr.Bloomberg finally steps down as Mayor of N.Y.C., HE should DO A SURVEY-STUDY of ALL Land BOTH vacant and occupied, propose an LVT/LVC sytem!!!!

Time for Clinton to quit

It is well known that people of America are not for, Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton. Please, tell Hilary to let go her power play and step aside so that we can focus on helping democrats win. As it stands right now, she is banking on having McCain get the upper hand and really sand to speculate we may be in for another 4 years of Bush via McCain. Why is she doing this???

Before the convention

I posted this at the USA Today site, in response to someone who said that the only way the Democratic nomination can be decided before the convention is by the superdelegates having their own "mini-convention":

"There will be two and a half months between the end of the primary voting and the convention--enough time for superdelegates to make up their minds and call, e-mail, text, or whatever to each other regarding who they should and will support. Most likely enough decisions will be made before the convention to prevent the sort of credentials or floor fight that many dread (and some, mostly in the GOP, probably hope for.) In that sense, you could say the superdelegates will have a sort of virtual mini-convention of communications regarding their choices.

This isn't like 1932, when FDR lost most primaries and had to deal with the bosses before and at the convention to line up enough delegates to win. Roosevelt's campaign managers in that race spent a lot of time on the telephone doing that--in a day when the big communications development was the increasing popularity of dial phones and the phasing out of the old candlestick-type stand up variety. They must have racked up quite a bill for the time to listen to a lot of garbled speech!"

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Michael Barone is a senior writer for U.S.News & World Report and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics. He has written for many publications—including the Economist and the New York Times.

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