>>Political conventions are not all parties
and protests.
That's what most people think,
but really, it's the highest governing body
of the two major parties,
and it's interesting because it only exists
for four days
out of every four years.
So, the delegates have committees,
the most important are
credentials, so that's the qualifications
of the delegates,
the platform which, of course, are the issues
that the party will form the fall campaign
on,
and the rules committee.
They present their findings and their proposals
to the delegates
who then have to ratify them.
Both parties will talk about how they're going
to run their 2020 nominating contests
at the current conventions,
so the delegates have four days
because they'll be doing work on all of the
days,
not just the nomination part is a lot of pomp
and circumstance,
but they really have a lot to discuss in terms
of how they think they can
put their party in the best position for the
fall campaign.
