Reply #15: You Don't Have Entries for Negative Numbers

[AndyTiedye]

Instead of covering the convention, the media may be covering the Boston Police picketing it.
Kerry and the delegates wouldn't even be able to get into to the convention without crossing a picket line.
It would be a no-win situation for Kerry -- an unmitigated disaster.
All that nice prime-time coverage of Democrats and our platforms,
the only chance we ever to present it during the entire campaign,
would go out the window and be replaced with stuff they can easily spin for Bush*.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=695359
> Nee said the union would escalate its protest plans for the convention week and would reconsider its earlier decision not to picket outside the convention site itself.<snip>

This may have been the plan all along, with the recent back-and-forth of negotiations
only to keep it in the news.

We won't find out what Rove is promising the Boston cops until next year, if then.