Reply #6: I wouldn't expect a dark-horse candidate to emerge with the nomination

[MrCoffee]

But the extended press coverage of the convention, coupled with actual interest on the part of the electorate, seems like a good thing over the long term.

Our ideas are better than their ideas. Don't we scream in here constantly about how the M$M silences our message? Don't we bemoan the fact that politics has devolved into the art of the sound bite?

I think that a national platform from which we can proclaim Democratic (as in, the Democratic Party) values can be an immensely powerful means by which we can prove that our ideas are better than their ideas.