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DAN: GOOD EVENING, AND WELCOME
TO MY STATE OF MIND.
WE HAVE YET TO FULLY REVIEW THE
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE'S
CONVENTION LAST WEEK, WITH
DONALD TRUMP BEING FRONT AND
CENTER, AND THE EXTRAORDINARY
THURSDAY NIGHT WHITE HOUSE
SPEECH ACCEPTING THE NOMINATION
AND PUSHING UP AGAINST NOT ONLY
CULTURE AND STANDARDS, BUT THE
LAW.
JOE CAMMARANO, POLITICAL
SCIENTIST FROM PROVIDENCE
COLLEGE, HAS BEEN MY GO-TO GUY
TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE WAY THAT
DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ARE
RUNNING THEIR SHOWS.
HERE IS A REVIEW, IN CASE YOU
MISSED IT, OF THE REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL CONVENTION, AND THEN WE
WILL GET INTO THE
PRES.
TRUMP: I PROFOUNDLY
ACCEPTED THIS NOMINAT3
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
REPORTER: PRESIDENT TRUMP STOOD
ON THE SOUTH LAWN OF THE WHITE
HOUSE AND THANKED THE SUPPORTERS
AND GOT HIM THERE.
HERE AND THEY ARE NOT.IS WE ARE
REPORTER: HE TURNED HIS
ATTENTION TO THE MAN TRYING TO
KEEP HIM FROM SPENDING ANOTHER
FOUR YEARS IN THE PEOPLE'S
HOUSE.
PRES. TRUMP: JOE BIDEN IS WEAK.
REPORTER: THE PRESENT PAINTED
BIDEN AS A PUPPET OF THE RADICAL
LEFT.
PRES. TRUMP: THEY WANT TO PASS
LEGISLATION TO REDUCE
LAW-ENFORCEMENT NATIONWIDE.
NO ONE WILL BE SAFE IN BIDEN'S
AMERICA.
REPORTER: HE SLAMMED TO THE
PROTESTS THAT HAVE ROCKED THE
NATION.
PRES. TRUMP: THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY CONDEMNS THE ARSON AND
VIOLENCE WE HAVE SEEN, IN
DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES ALL, LIKE
KENOSHA, MINNEAPOLIS, PORTLAND,
CHICAGO, NEW YORK.
REPORTER: WHILE MAKING NO
MENTION OF THE POLICE SHOOTINGS
WHICH TRIGGER THE ARRESTS.
THOUSANDS
WILL MARK ONRUSHING
TODAY CALLING FOR POLICE
ACCOUNTABILITY INCLUDING FOR THE
MURDERS OF BREONNA TAYLOR AND
GEORGE FLOYD.
ARCHERS PROTESTED OUTSIDE THE
WHITE HOUSE AND CONFRONTED TRUMP
SUPPORTERS LEAVING THE WHITE
HOUSE INCLUDING SENATOR RAND
PAUL.
WITH THE CONVENTIONS NOW
OVER,
THE REAL CAMPAIGNING BEGINS.
PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL HOLD A
CAMPAIGN RALLY HAMPSHIRE
THIS EVENING.
WHILE JOE BIDEN ANNOUNCED HE
WILL BE RETURNING TO THE
CAMPAIGN TRAIL FOR IN-PERSON
RALLIES AFTE C13
DAN: AND SO I REGROUP WITH JOE
CAMMARANO, POLITICAL SCIENCE
PROFESSOR AT PROVIDENCE COLLEGE.
HE IS KIND ENOUGH TO SHARE HIS
THOUGHTS ON THE DNC AND RNC.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE
QUESTION IS TO START.
LET'S JUST GO WITH WHAT WAS YOUR
GUT CHECK ABOUT THE ENTIRE WEEK,
AND THEN WE CAN TALK ABOUT THE
PRESIDENT'S THURSDAY ADDRESS.
JOE: A FEW THINGS.
FIRST, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS LAST
WEEK ABOUT
PARTY BEING SO
DIMINISHED IN THIS ERA.
IT WAS REALLY A WEEK OF
TRUMP
AND HIS FOLLOWERS WHO ARE
REPUBLICANS, NOT REPUBLICANS
EMBRACING DONALD TRUMP AGAIN.
THE SPEAKERS WERE AND
EXTRAORDINARILY UNUSUAL S OF
TRUMP LOYALISTS, PARTICULARLY
FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
THAT IS NOT NORMAL, BUT IT IS
WHAT WE WOULD EXPECT.
FROM THIS IS TRUMP BELIEVES HEE-
HAS TO INCREASE IS BASED.
I THINK RIGHT ABOUT THAT.
THE APPEAL WAS AIMED AT THE
POPULIST WING OF THE PARTY,
BLUE-COLLAR, WHITE,
NON-COLLEGE-EDUCATED REPUBLICAN.
THEY REALLY LEAN VERY HARD IN
THAT DIRECTION.
THEY ARE CROSSING THEIR FINGERS
TH THAT LEAN DOESN'T ALIENATE
-- THE THIRD POINT I WANT TO
MAKE, THAT AND LAST WEEK GAVE
REPUBLICANS THE FOCUS ON THE
ECONOMY AND THE LITTLE LESS
POPULIST IN THE ORIENTATION.
THAT BASICALLY FORCED THEM TO
THINK, CAN I SWALLOW
HARD AND
VOTE FOR TRUMP BECAUSE YOU WILL
GIVE ME WHAT I WANT ON THE
ECONOMY?
THE MESSAGE WAS CLEAR.
WE ARE GOING TO POPULIST ROU
TE,
TAKE GEORGE WALLACE AND RICHARD
ON THE MIX AND CROSS OUR
FINGERS THAT THOSE WITH US ON
ECONOMIC POLICY WON'T ABANDON
US.
DAN: I FOUND THIS FASCINATING --
LAST NIGHT I HAD A
LEADER WHO
HAS LONG BEEN A REPUBLICAN AND A
BIG-MONEY GUY IN THE STATE WHEN
IT COMES TO REVENUE OFFICER.
SMART GUY, KIND OF A WONKY
GUY.
HE IS PASSIONATE ABOUT THE IDEA
THAT DOD TRUMP SHOULD NOT BE
ELECTED.
HE IS PE REPUBLICANS
WHO OPPOSE OUTCOME, PART OF THE
LINCOLN PROJECT, REP BEEN VERY
VERY ACTIVE, FUNDRA13
PUTTING HIGH-LEVEL PRODUCTION
TOGETHER SEIZING ON TRUMP AND
SUPPORTING JOE BIDEN.
THE REFLECTED AS WELL ON THE
LACK OF TRADITIONAL REPUBLICANS
THAT ARE IN THE MIX RIGHT NOW,
THATAS BECOME THE
TRUMP PARTY, WE GET IT.
BUT IT WAS GLARING THAT THERE
WAS VERY -- MITCH MCCONNELL
BARELY SPIT OUT A VIDEO.
YOU JUST DIDN'T HAVE THE LONG
LIST OF NATIONAL REPUBLICANS YOU
ARE IN PLAY RIGHT NOW.
DO YOU THINK THE COUNTRY GOT
THAT?
JOE: WELL, FIRST OF ALL, THE
RATINGS WEREN'T ALL THAT GOOD
FOR EITHER PARTY, A LITTLE LESS
SO FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
THE PEOPLE WATCHING ARE EIT
THE POLITICOS LIKE US, PEOPLE
WHO HAVE TO DO IT FOR THEIR JOB,
OR PEOPLE WHO ARE ALREADY VERY
LOYAL TRUMP SUPPORTERS.
A LOT GARY SASS TYPES
SAID IT OUT-- SAT IT OUT.
IT WASN'T AIMED AT THEM.
IT WAS AIMED AT ENERGIZING
PEOPLE IN MICHIGAN AND
PENNSYLVANIA SO TRUMP CAN
EKE A
VICTORY.
AND YOU ARE RIGHT, GARY IS THE
PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE SOMEBODY
WHO IN ANY OTHER YEAR WOULD BE A
SLAMDUNK SUPPORTER OF THE
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE.
THAT IS THE TRICK FOR THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN.
IF THEY LOSE GARY FROM IT
DOESN'T MATTER.
HE IS IN RHODE ISLAND.
BUT HOW MANY GARY
TYPES WILL HE
LOSE IN PENNSYLVANIA OR
MICHIGAN, OR EVEN A PLACE LIKE
GEORGIA, WHERE HE DOESN'T HAVE A
SLAMDUNK CHANCE OF WINNING?
THIS IS THE BALANCE.
THIS IS WHY I KEEP SAYING DONALD
TRUMP DESTROYED THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY IN 2016 AND IN 2020 HE IS
GOING TO DESTROY THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY WI.
DAN: TALK TO ME ABOUT THE LIST
OF PROMINENT REPUBLICANS WHO
WERE NOT THERE.
DO YOU THINK AMERICA
RECOGNIZED
THEY WERE NOT THERE?
JOE: WELL, YOU KNOW, I WOULD SAY
YES, BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER TO
THEM -- BUT DOES IT MATTER TO
THE?
M?
ONLY PARTIALLY US.
THE FACT THAT THERE WAS NO BUSH
OR LARRY HOGAN OR MIKE DEWINE --
MIKE DEWINE MIGHT HAVE MADE A
BRIEF APPEARANCE, I CAN'T
REMEMBER.
KIND OF THE COUNTRY-CLUB
REPUBLICANS WE ALL GREW UP WITH,
THOSE OF US IN OUR 40'S AND
50'S, I JUST -- THAT IS THE
PARTY OF THE FAST.
I DON'T THINK THEY WANT TO
NECESSARILY HIGHLIGHT THAT
ANYMORE.
AT LEASE TO THE
CAMPAIGN
DOESN'T.
THEY DON'T WANT BANKERS SPEAKING
OR BANKING INTERESTS
SPEAKING AT
THE CONVENTION BECAUSE THAT DOES
NOT PLAY WELL TO THE POPULISTS.
DAN: I GUESS IN A WAY --
JOE: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SO
DIVIDED THAT THE 35% ARE GOING
TO VOTE FOR TRUMP NO MATTER WHAT
EVEN IF HE IS CANNIBALIZING
HUMANS AND EATING THEM ON
SCREEN.
THEY ARE GOING TO STAY WITH HIM.
IT IS THE 10 TO 12% OF PEOPLE
WHO LIKE HIS DEREGULATORY POLICY
BUT CANNOT STAND THE REST OF HIS
POLICIES.
THAT IS THE ISSUE.
DAN: IT USED TO BE SHOOT
SOMEBODY ON HIS END --FIFTH
AVENUE.
NOW IT IS CANNIBALIZING WHATEVER
YOU SAID.
WHEN WE COME BACK, THE WHITE
HOUSE NOMINATION ACCEPTANCE FROM
DAN: WELCOME BACK TO MY "STATE
OF MIND."
PC PROFESSOR JOE CAMMARANO WITH
ME.
LET'S HAVE IT -- IS THE NIGHT,--
THURSDAY NIGHT, AT THE WHITE
HOUSE.
YOUR PROFESSORIAL TAKE ON THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THAT AND WHAT
WE ARE, A, USED TO SEEING, AND
B, SHOULD BE SEEING.
JOE: IT REALLY STRUCK ME, THE
WHITE HOUSE AS THE BACKDROP FOR
THIS.
IT IS ALMOST LIKE HE DESECRATED
WHAT YOU MIGHT CALL CIVIC
AND
SPACE.
THE WHITE HOUSE HAS NEVER BEEN
USED LIKE THIS BEFORE, AND THERE
IS A REASON WHY.
IT IS THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE.
EVEN THOUGH I'VE NEVER BEEN IN
THE WHITE HOUSE -- I'VE BEEN
CLOSE, BUT NEVER IN -- I FEEL
LIKE I'M A PART OF IT.
HE VERY EXPLICITLY SAID THAT NOW
THIS IS WE OWN THIS NOW, THEY
DON'T.
THAT KIND OF DIVISION AND USING
THE WHITE HOUSE TO DEVELOP AN
EXCLUSIONARY MESSAGE REALLY WAS
TROUBLING.
THE SECOND THING AS AN ACADEMIC
WAS I HAVE NEVER SEEN AN
INCUMBENT PRESIDENT RUN AGAINST
AN INCUMBENT BEFORE.
HE IS RUNNING AGAINST JOE BIDEN
AS IF JOE BIDEN IS THE CURRENT
INCUMBENT.
THAT WAS STRIKING.
IT IS UNIQUE, PROBABLY NOT
INCONSISTENT WITH THE WAY TRUMP
ENGAGES EVERYTHING IN HIS LIFE.
HE THOUGHT OF IT AND IS GOING TO
GO WITH IT EVEN IF IT IS
ACCURATE OR INACCURATE.
THE SYMBOLISM OF HAVING MAYBE
THREE MASKED PEOPLE
IN A CROWD
OF 2000.
THAT IS A LOT OF FEDERAL
EMPLOYEES ON THE GROUND IN
VIOLATION OF THE HATCH ACT.
IT STRUCK ME AS A CERTAIN
ARROGANCE THAT I DON'T THINK WE
HAVE SEEN IN THE MODERN ERA OF
PRESIDENTS.
DAN: FRIDAY ON MY RADIO SHOW,
WEEKDAYS 3:00 TO 6:00, OF
OTHER THAN TO JUST REPEAT OVER
AND OVER WHAT I SAW, AND IT WAS
VERY INTERESTING HOW THE RADIO
SHOW WENT.
WHAT I SAID WAS
1500-PLUS
PEOPLE, SHOULDER TO SHOULDER,
MOST WITHOUT A MASK LISTENING TO
THE NOMINATION, ACCEPTANCE
SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES, THE PERSON WHO IS
MOST IN CHARGE OR RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE NATIONAL RESPONSE TO
COVID-19.
AND I REPEATED THAT OVER AND
OVER AGAIN, NOT TO PLAY WITH THE
AUDIENCE, BUT JUST TO SAY WHAT
WAS TRUE.
ALL OF THAT IS JUST TRUE.
IT IS NOT OPINION, IT IS NOT --
IT IS JUST TRUE.
AND THE VISCERAL EARLY
REACTION
FROM THE BASE ON THE PHONE LINES
-- "YOU ARE ALWAYS BASHING TRUMP
!"
AND THEN OF COURSE -- BUT MY
POINT IS, WITH A FULL BODY OF
PHONE LINES -- I DON'T ALWAYS
JUDGE THE RADIO PHONE LINES AS
THE PULSE OF AMERICA OR THE
REGION.
BUT PEOPLE NOTICED
IT, PEOPLE
HAD OPINIONS ABOUT IT, AND I'M
TELLING YOU, IT DIDN'T FLY WITH
A LOT OF FOLKS.
HE WAS TROLLING THE MEDIA, BUT
HE MAY HAVE HURT HIMSELF.
I DON'T KNOW.
WHAT IS YOUR PROJECTION ABOUT
THAT?
JOE: YOU KNOW, IT IS JUST MORE
EVIDENCE OF WHAT WE ARE GOING TO
GET.
TODAY, FOR YESTERDAY, WE SAW
HIM
TWEETING ABOUT PORTLAND AND
DEFENDING ESSENTIALLY, OR AT
LEAST NOT CONDEMNING, THE KID IN
KENOSHA WHO MURDERED TWO
PROTESTERS, OR SHOT THREE, I
GUESS, BASICALLY SAYING,
" OF COURSE PEOPLE ARE
GOING TO TAKE THE LAW INTO THEIR
OWN HANDS."
THE IDEA FOR U.S. SENATOR, RON
JOHNSON, GOING ON TV AND SAY
"WELL, YOU KNOW, VIGILANTES ARE
NECESSARY THING WITH ALL THE
VIOLENCE IN THE STREETS."
I NEVER THOUGHT IN THIS COUNTRY
IN MY LIFETIME I WOULD HAVE TO
HEAR AND SEE AND WITNESS THESE
SORTS OF STATEMENTS COMING FROM
ELECTED OFFICIALS.
IT'S REALLY, REALLY TROUBLING AS
A POLITICAL SCIENTIST.
DAN: YEAH, BUT GOING BACK TO
WHETHER IT RESONATES WITH --
WHETHER THE IMAGE OF THOSE FOLKS
-- LOOK, THERE IS NOT A STAY IN
THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW WHO BY AT
LEAST THE COVID PRESCRIPTIONS
ALLOWS A GATHERING OF THAT SIZE
INDOOR OR OUTDOOR.
THERE JUST ISN'T.
YOU GET PUSHBACK FROM FOLKS --
"WHAT ABOUT THE PROTESTERS?"
WELL, THE PROTESTERS ARE ALSO
BEHAVING IN A TERRIBLY RISKY
WAY.
I KNOW MOST OF THEM ARE IN
MASKS.
THEY WERE ON THE MALL ON FRIDAY.
BUT THEY ARE RISKING THE VIRUS
TRANSMISSION AS WELL.
THAT WRONG DOES NOT MATCH THE
WRONG OF WHAT THE PRESIDENT
SYMBOLICALLY OFFERED ON
THURSDAY, RIGHT?
JOE: I WOULD AGREE, AND MOST OF
THE STUDIES OF THESE PROTESTS
SHOW THAT MASKING MAKES A
DIFFERENCE.
WHEN PROTESTERS ARE NOT WEARING
MASKS, K.D. SPREAD, BUT WHEN
THEY ARE--THEY DO SPREAD, BUT
WHEN THEY ARE, THEY DON'T AS
LONG AS WHEN THEY STAY OUTSIDE.
THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THIS
WAS
WHERE THE OUTDOOR EVENTS WERE
PROBLEMATIC BUT THE REAL PROBLEM
OVER THE NEXT TWO OR THREE WEEKS
WAS THE MOTORCYCLE PEOPLE WENT
AND GOT TATTOOS AT NIGHT AND
WENT TO BARS AT NIGHT, AND 61%
OF ALL COUNTIES HAD THOSE
SURGES.
WE WILL SEE AN UPTICK IN A WEEK
OR TWO.
IT IS NOT JUST THAT PEOPLE ARE
GATHERING TOGETHER, IT IS THAT
THEY ARE GATHERING TOGETHER
WITHOUT MASKS AND ARE DOING
THINGS THAT ARE RISKY.
SITTING AND LISTENING TO A
PRESIDENT DRONE ON FOR 20
MINUTES -- AND IT WAS A DRONE,
IT WAS A TERRIBLE SPEECH -- IS
NOT THE SAME AS MILLING AROUND
OR WALKING AROUND, OR STAYING AT
THE SAME PLACE FOR AN HOUR AND
10 MINUTES, THAT IT IS THE SAME
IF YOU ARE NOT WEARING A MASK.
IT WAS BASICALLY THUMB
IN THE
NOSE THAT ALL THE EXPERTS, WHICH
EVERYBODY HATES THESE DAYS, BUT
THE EXPERTS ARE RIGHT, AND WE
ARE PAYING FOR IT IN A WAY WE
SHOULDN'T BE PAYING FOR IT.
THAT IS BY KEEPING THINGS SHUT
DOWN TO SOME DEGREE.
DAN: WHEN WE COME BACK, WE WILL
REVIEW -- WELL, WE WILL TALK
ABOUT WHAT THE NEXT COUPLE OF
WEEKS HOLDS IN STORE.
THERE IS ALWAYS THAT CONVENTION
BUMP.
THE VIRTUAL CONVENTION BUMP, IS
DAN: WELCOME BACK TO MY FINAL
CHAT SEGMENT WITH JOE CAMMARANO,
PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
AT PROVIDENCE COLLEGE.
WE HAVE HAD THE POLLSTERS TALK
ABOUT THE TRADITIONAL BUMPS.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE ARE GOING
TO SEE, IF ANY, WITH TWO VIRTUAL
CAMPAIGNS, CONVENTIONS BACK TO
BACK.
YOU MENTIONED THE RATINGS.
IT MUST HAVE GONE UP THE
PRESIDENT'S WAZOO TO KNOW HE WAS
A COUPLE MILLION VIEWERS SHY ON
HIS NIGHT AND THEN JOE BIDEN WAS
ON HIS NIGHT, WHICH I THINK
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF
THAT.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT?
JOE: I THINK WHAT I MAKE OF IT
IS, AGAIN, PEOPLE WHO LOVE TRUMP
TUNED IN.
PEOPLE WHO FELT OBLIGED TO DID.
NOBODY ELSE DID, BECAUSE THEY
KNEW WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO
GET.
WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE GOING
TO VOTE FOR HIM, THEN YOU WITH A
WERE GETTING.
TO VOTE FOR HIM, THEN YOU WITH A
WERE GETTING.
--THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE
GETTING.
IT IS ABOUT 15% LOWER THAN
BIDEN'S, WHICH IS SIGNIFICANT,
BUT THE RATINGS ARE NOT ALL THAT
GREAT FOR EITHER OF THEM.
DAN: NO.
WHAT IS YOUR ACADEMIC THOUGHT
ABOUT WHAT THE VIRTUALITY OF
THESE TWO DIMENSIONS HAS DONE
AND WILL DO COMPARATIVE TO
ALL
OTHER CONVENTION SEASONS
AFFECTED ELECTIONS?
SUR
JOE: SURE.
THE ONES WHO DO THINGS
DIFFERENTLY IN THE PAST USUALLY
WIN.
BOTH PARTIES DID THINGS
DIFFERENT FROM THE PAST.
ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE, IS WAS
MORE OF A PERSONALIZED
CONVENTION FOR TRUMP.
ON THE DEMOCRATIC SECOND THEY
FINALLY TAPPED INTO THE SKILLS
OF THEIR HOLLYWOOD ALLIES AND
PUT TOGETHER A REALLY GOOD
SERIES OF INFOMERCIALS THAT I
THOUGHT TOLD A REALLY
INTERESTING NARRATIVE THAT COULD
BE A MODEL FOR THE FUTURE.
I THINK BOTH OF THEM DID
SOMETHING VERY UNIQUE.
I WOULD PUT MY MONEY ON THE
DEMOCRATIC ONE BEING CLOSER TO
WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE
FUTURE.
CONVENTIONS ARE
ALREADY OUTDATED.
WE DON'T NEED THEM ANYMORE.
WE HAVE NOT NEEDED THEM AND
SNAKING 76.
MAYBE THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF
THE END OF THE CONVENTION.
DAN: DO YOU THINK THAT THREE-FO
UR-EVENT PARTY -- GOD BLESS
US,
WE GET PAST THE VIRUS -- DO YOU
THINK THAT IS OVER?
THEY ARE DYING TO FILL UP
GILLETTE STADIUM AGAIN FOR
CONCERTS AND BALLGAMES AND SHOWS
.
I THINK WE ALL CRAVE THE VISION
OF GATHERING AGAIN.
YOU DON'T THINK THE CONVENTIONS
WILL BE IN THAT FORM AS A
COMEBACK STATEMENT FROM THE
VIRUS AND BLAH BLAH BLAH?
JOE: I EXPECT THEM TO BECOME
INTERNAL EVENTS RATHER THAN
EXTERNAL EVENTS.
THEY ARE AIMED AT THE PEOPLE IN
THE PARTY AND IT WILL BE A GREAT
GATHERING FOR FUNDRAISERS AND
I DON'T THINK PEOPLE ARE GOING
I DON'T THINK NETWORKS ARE GOING
THEY ARE NOT THAT INTERESTING
ANYMORE.
IN 1964 THEY WERE
FASCINATING,
BUT LOOK AT ALL THE THINGS THAT
HAVE BECOME MORE FASCINATING
SINCE THEN.
I THINK THEY ARE A THING OF THE
PAST.
DAN: WE TALK ABOUT THAT
BEFORE,
IN AT THE CONVENTIONS -- THE
TERM " BROKERED CONVENTION" KEPT
COMING UP IN THE LAST TWO
DEMOCRATIC CYCLES, BUT
INEVITABLY IT WORKED ITSELF OUT
AND IT WASN'T GOING TO BE ONE.
IF THERE IS NO DRAMA OF A
NOMINATION CONTESTS, AND THERE
HASN'T BEEN FOR DECADES, YOU ARE
RIGHT, EVERYTHING IS FAIT ACC
OMPLI, IT IS A SHOW, AND MAYBE
THE SHOW IS NOT AS MARKETABLE
ANYMORE.
IN A WAY IT IS SAD BECAUSE THOSE
OF US WHO ENJOY THE CELEBRATION
OF DEMOCRACY THROUGH PA3
POLITICS, IT WILL LEAVE A LITTLE
BIT OF A HOLE.
BUT MOST OF AMERICA, I GUESS, IS
LIKE, EH, WHATEVER.
JOE: YEAH, AND TRADITIONALLY
CONVENTIONS HAVE ALLOWED THE
PARTY TO COME TOGETHER ON A SET
OF ISSUES CALLED A PLATFORM.
THE DEMOCRATS HAD 85 PAGES, BUT
THE REPUBLICAN SAID OH, LOOK AT
2016, WE WILL USE THE SAME ONE.
EVEN THAT DIMINISHED.
I DON'T THINK IT WILL BE IN THE
FINANCIAL SELF-INTEREST OF MAJOR
MEDIA COMPANIES TO COVER THEM
THE WAY THEY HAPPEN.
DAN: ALWAYS ABOUT THAT.
ALL RIGHT, 30 SECONDS FROM WHAT
HAPPENS IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF
WEEKS?
ANYTHING OF SIGNIFICANCE?
JOE: THOSE OF YOU INTO PRAYING,
PRAY THAT WE DON'T GET VIOLENT
IN THIS COUNTRY.
I ACTUALLY AMUSLY
WORRIED ABOUT INCREASED TENSIONS
AND THE INCREASED USE OF
WEAPONS.
SO YEAH, WATCH OUT FOR THAT.
DO YOUR BEST NOT TO BE
A PART OF
THAT.
THAT IS ABOUT 6 C13
MR. OPTIMISTIC, CHINA.
DAN: -- ESTHER OPTIMISTIC,
I KNOW.
DAN: THE POLITICAL SCIENTIST
LOOKS LIKE HE IS WORN DOWN BY
THESE CONVENTIONS.
IT AIN'T YOUR GRANDFATHER'S
POLITICAL PROCESS ANYMORE.
JOE: I BECAME A POLITICAL
SCIENTIST BECAUSE I THOUGHT
POLITICS IS A GOOD THING, AND IT
IS GETTING HARDER TO SEE IT THAT
WAY.
DAN: CLEARLY SOME POLITICAL
SCIENCE MALAISE FROM OUR GUEST,
JOE CAMMARANO.
UNDERSTANDABLY.
THIS PROCESS CAN WHERE EVERYBODY
DOWN, WHETHER YOU CELEBRATE
POLITICS OR NOT.
THE THUMBS-UP VIEW ON DONALD
TRUMP NEEDS TO BE HEARD, TOO.
THE GUEST ON FRIDAY'S SHOW AT
THE END OF THE WEEK.
AND YOU MAY SEE SOME OF THE
REPEAT SHOWS.
FOR A PRODUCTION PURPOSE WE WILL
SEE FORMER SHOWS ON WEDNESDAY
AND THURSDAY NIGHT, AND A NEW
SHOW ON FRIDAY WITH THE SHERIFF
AND HIS THOUGHTS ON DONALD
TRUMP.
SEE YOU ON THE RADIO FROM 3:00
TO 6:00.
HAVE A GREAT EVENING.
GOOD NIGHT.
