I went to a political party's biggest party

Mr. Beat goes the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. While he's there, he gives you a history lesson, because of course he does.

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Sources/further reading:
Shafer, Byron E (1988). "Emergence of the Presidential The Nomination and the Convention". Bifurcated Politics: Evolution and Reform in the National Party Convention. Harvard University Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0674072565.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...
https://course-notes.org/us_history/p...
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2015/...
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/ar...

Here's an annotated script with footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N...

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