Why exactly is a prolonged primary resulting in a brokered convention a bad thing??

[ShaneGR]

McCain has won the Republican primary. No more media coverage until the convention for the most part. Plus he's locked into public financing.

So why exactly is nonstop democratic primary coverage all the way until the convention, culminating in probably the most watched convention in the HISTORY of the US, why is that a bad thing?

Because it will tear apart the Democratic Party? I call bullshit. It's not gonna tear anyone down, let them get it all out in the open before the general election, keep the medias attention, and expose the Democratic Party to more and more people every single day. By expose, I mean getting exposure, the more people who see the more people who will be fired up to get out and vote in November.

I say keep it going.

Btw, as far as I can tell, because of the extraordinary nature of this primary, it's almost guaranteed this will be an Obama-Clinto or Clinto-Obama ticket. Bank it.

[rwheeler31]

1. Winning ugly leaves gop in charge.

[NJSecularist]

2. Because it puts us months behind as the Republicans campaign for one candidate..

at the precinct and county level in each state, especially in swing states like Ohio and Florida.

The Republicans getting a head start in 2004 in Ohio and Florida was one of the reasons why we lost the presidency. They had money flowing through due to Bush's incumbency to build a ground game in each of those swing states long before we did.

[Hestia]

6. Did you see this story?

The Machinery of Hope
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/19106326

The Republican's getting that beneficial head start may not be true anymore.

[NJSecularist]

10. A primary organization is not the same thing as a general election organization

Especially if Obama is not the nominee.

[KittyWampus]

3. this is so simple, been explained so many times. The mind boggles someone asks yet again.

[Divernan]

9. He's jerking your chain - the tell is his "guaranteeing" an O/C or C/O ticket

Kiss of death to both candidates. Makes sure all of HRC's solid 47% negatives make it to the polls, plus those who would be against ANY woman candidate, plus the racists. Oh yeah - that's the ticket! for a McCain presidency. (And he says his hobby is politics.)

I think he just gets off on the chaos of the battle and wants to be entertained by it as long as possible.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

11. IMO the only way Hillary can go on is to step up her negative campaigning. Such a

strategy is designed to make some of the potential new young and Independent voters Obama is energizing for the fall more apathetic and cynical about politics, and less likely to vote.

If Obama goes after Hillary's base in the Hallmark Channel viewership, etc, he'll turn some of HER supporters off and further depress turnout for the eventual Democratic candidate.

Only McCain and the Republicans benefit in the long run from a protracted negative campaign. And the campaign would not continue if it weren't going to be negative.

[Mooney]

4. It isn't a bad thing.

People just want this wrapped up because they're impatient.

[Muttocracy]

5. Dems pour their money into primary instead of GE; we write their attack ads nt

[derby378]

7. The Republicans are the ones who should be imploding, not the Democrats

And although a lot of people have been floating the idea of a Clinton-Obama ticket (or Obama-Clinton), I think such a ticket will leave western, southern, and many midwestern states vulnerable to the GOP yet again. Yes, even someone like John McCain.

[Aviation Pro]

8. Because whoever loses gets stuck with the crybabies?

....tough tit, toughen up, buttercups.