Shades of Chicago: Don’t let ’08 be like ’68

By Harold Meyerson | Wednesday, February 13, 2008 | The Washington Post

“…There are fault lines — of race, gender and generation — in the party that have opened in the course of the campaign. An insurgency threatens an establishment. And if a battle over contested delegations goes clear to the convention, if the superdelegates anoint a nominee in a process and for a reason that isn’t clear to all, then the fight in Denver, like the fight 40 years ago in Chicago, won’t simply be over an issue or even a nomination. It could well be a furious battle among core Democratic constituencies for the future of the party. And the only winner of that fight would be John McCain….”…BS

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