I thought there were some interesting observations in this article:
Read on, Hillary and Barack: As you slog toward what could be a brokered convention in Denver, consider the nine lessons of Kansas City.
The 1976 Republican National Convention here was the last big political powwow to open without a presidential candidate having locked up a clear majority of delegates.
President Gerald R. Ford deftly managed to seal the nomination on the first ballot over the late-surging Ronald Reagan. So the show at Kemper Arena avoided the technical definition of “brokered,” even if headlines called the early maneuvering “Showdown at K.C. Corral.”
In a 2001 interview with The Kansas City Star, Ford said: “It was a real challenge. …We wanted to do everything we could to heal the wounds at the Kansas City contest.”
http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/598148.htmlThere's a lot of similarity and a lot of difference in the dynamics. One thing that was not mentioned is that our current situation will yeld much more complicated results if we do not make every effort to protect the sense of personal investment that supporters have put forth. I think it goes beyond the bottom line of the article:
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The Democrats will defeat either the first serious woman or African-American candidate for a major party. The campaign, to date, has been ugly. There will, very likely, be raw nerves. As there were in 1976.
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