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The Democrats are gonna party in Denver like it’s 1972
Posted By katie allison granju
In my 2007 column, I compared this presidential campaign to that of 1972, when George McGovern lost 49 states to Richard Nixon. The parallels are in some ways obvious — the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq, above all. What I could not have foreseen a year ago was how much more obvious the parallels would become. Back in 1972, the Democratic Party was split between doves and hawks, reformers and stogie smokers — even between men and women. The result was a national convention that was boisterous, unruly, and ugly to look at. That convention might, however, look like a tea party compared with what could happen in Denver this August.
Mar 14th, 2008

