WHY TECHNOLOGY WILL PREVENT A CONTESTED CONVENTION.

WHY TECHNOLOGY WILL PREVENT A CONTESTED CONVENTION. I have been posting on how I would like to see contested conventions of the kind they have in Canada and that we used to have in the United States. Michael Barone writes that we will never see another contested convention. He claims that we had contested conventions in the past because the convention was a communications medium. Without long distance telephone calls, polls, the internet, and frequent air travel, the convention provided the first opportunity for politicians to determine their delegate strengths and negotiating positions. With the new technologies, Barone thinks that bargaining will determine the nominees well before the conventions.