The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review > 'Politics': Pundit's Progress: "Delegates to political conventions ''wear funnier hats than they do in the Supreme Soviet, but their scope for discretionary decision making is more limited,'' and the ''only remaining function'' of conventions ''is to be the pretext for a gigantic press Woodstock.'' "
Do we want to really increase Colorado's influence at the two National Conventions? In four years let's send uncommitted delegates and let the make a final choice based on full and complete information and personal conversation with all candidates. Then we can set the date of our neighborhood caucuses based on what is good for Coloradoans, not what is good for NBC and CBS. If other states do the same, we can return real meaning to the conventions.
Conventions were first held because of communication problems. Long distances made it necessary to send delegates to make a final decision. Today, we need to return the right of decision to delegates for the same reason. Today we have communication problems caused not by too little information but the clutter of too much.
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