{"id":2552,"date":"2004-08-31T05:26:23","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T09:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/08\/31\/platform-diving\/"},"modified":"2004-08-31T05:26:23","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T09:26:23","slug":"platform-diving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/08\/31\/platform-diving\/","title":{"rendered":"Platform Diving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3761'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/platchair.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"275\" align=\"left\"><em>Hammering<br \/>\n        together the poarty platform used to be one of the main jobs of the nominating<br \/>\n        convention, but led to unsightly rows and delays; nowadays it is written<br \/>\n        and approved months in advance. While covering the Democratic convention<br \/>\n        we never actually saw a copy of the platform, and only heard it refered<br \/>\n        to once, by a Congressman objecting to a plank on Water Rights. However,<br \/>\n        we are sure that each party is closely parsing the OTHER side&#8217;s platform,<br \/>\n        looking for weak points or evidence of &quot;extremism.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Republicans approved<br \/>\n          a platform yesterday that puts the party firmly on the record<br \/>\n          against legalized abortion, gay marriage and other forms<br \/>\n          of legal recognition for same-sex couples, reflecting the political<br \/>\n        clout of social conservatives and setting up a stark contrast with the<br \/>\n        Democrats<br \/>\n          for the fall campaign.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/31\/politics\/campaign\/31platform.html?hp\">New York Times<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/packages\/html\/politics\/gop_2004platform.pdf\"><font color=\"#000000\">pdf of the Republican platform<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hammering together the poarty platform used to be one of the main jobs of the nominating convention, but led to unsightly rows and delays; nowadays it is written and approved months in advance. While covering the Democratic convention we never &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/08\/31\/platform-diving\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}