The Democratic convention went off without hitches. But was it a success? | Geoffrey Kabaservice

Biden may get a temporary bump in the polls, but viewership for Biden’s speech was down 21% from Clinton’s in 2016This past week, the former vice-president laid out a forceful case for the importance of empathy and character in high office, his ability to reverse the manifold failures of Donald Trump’s regime, and the threat that a second Trump term would pose to American democracy. Did he – and his fellow Democrats at the convention who echoed his points – do so successfully? In today’s tribal and polarized America, there’s no easy way to answer that question.Both Biden’s speech and the convention as a whole clearly were pitched toward moderate Democrats and even some Republicans, particularly in swing states. From the perspective of those viewers, Biden and his party performed brilliantly. Continue reading…
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