Are you into politics much? We ran a poll on-the-air Tuesday and only 3% of our voting viewers said they were obsessed with politics. If I'm not in the 3%, I'm close.
Maybe it's not so much I'm into politics as I watch a lot of news, especially the cable news networks. I see them when I get up and again when I come home.
Tonight I turned on MSNBC and came upon a post-Michigan primary roundtable hosted by Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews. They were chatting it up with NBC's political director and Andrea Mitchell.
At one point they all began to salivate. OK, maybe that's an exaggeration, but they were excited. Leaving Michigan, no candidate has gotten an insurmountable lead. It's possible one, or both, of the political conventions will be contested.
I'm not sure that's happened in my lifetime, a convention convened without a candidate already anointed.
For the last few decades, political conventions have been stage managed and homogenized. In an open convention, political warfare would take place. It might be riveting. Think of it as a reality show.
It also might allow a fatally wounded (in the electable sense) candidate to be chosen.
This coming presidential election promises to be one of the most interesting in a very long time. The current national political tilting away from Republicans could be short lived if Democrats fight too much this summer Denver.
Every 4 years, I find I'm addicted to presidential election coverage. This year is very exciting.
You once posted here about the possibility of Bloomberg running as an indie. Some of the pundits from cable news seem to think he's going to throw his hat in the ring. What do you think?
If I knew short Jewish guys from NYC could run for president, I would have aimed higher.
Geoff,
Of course there were brokered conventions in your lifetime. Don't you remember listening on your newfangled wireless to the GOP battle that resulted in Warren Harding's nomination in 1920?
(And they said I'd never make it in comedy.)
I don't think you could run, Geoff. You have a tainted past that will come back to haunt you - Radio.