Reply #88: Do you mean the 2004 Democratic platform?

[Ken Burch]

Actually, as far as I know, the DNC(Democratic National Committee) has little to do with drafting the party platform. Customarily, the nominee apparent(the person who goes into the convention with the nomination sewn up, since we haven't had a convention in which the nomination was in doubt since 1960, when JFK just barely got a first-ballot majority)pretty much dictates the platform.

Also, let me say at this time that, while you take a similar position to the infamous MrBenchley, but unlike him, you do so in a generally evenhanded and respectful tone, and I thank you for that.