Not news: Harry Reid is talking up a brokered convention.
News: For the Democratic party.
The Senate Minority Leader told CNN that the contest to be the Democratic nominee could carry on for some time, and if it produced a brokered convention, hey: “It would be kind of fun.”
“These races go on for a long long time,” Reid told CNN in an interview. When asked if that included a brokered convention, he responded, “Sure, seriously some of the old conventions produced some good people.”
One such person on Reid’s side of the aisle: Adalai Stevenson, the last Democratic nominee to be chosen in a brokered convention. The year was 1952.
Most chatter of a brokered convention this year has involved the Republicans, who face an unsettled race after Ted Cruz won the Iowa caucuses and Donald Trump captured New Hampshire with only John Kasich mounting even a scintilla of a challenge.
