The 1952 political conventions in Chicago were the last ones in American history when delegates walked in to the convention hall and didn’t know who the presidential nominees were going to be. However, Stephen Hess says, they are still important events, because they offer political activists a chance to get together and “remind themselves why they’re Republicans and Democrats.”
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