On Crashing the Convention

Mitt Romney’s campaign complained today that President Obama was breaking “a three-decade precedent by personally campaigning during the opposing party’s convention.”

Alex Burns: “Democrats now counter that Mitt Romney isn’t exactly pure in this respect: In 2008, he traveled to Denver during the Democratic convention and taped a major interview with Katie Couric to counter-program Obama’s events… It’s not a parallel situation, since Romney wasn’t on his party’s ticket that year, let alone an incumbent president… But in terms of GOP complaints about Democratic bracketing, Romney’s ’08 role is sort of a complicating factor.”

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