The Arianna Sideshow

摘要

It's not easy getting a political convention off the ground-especially when the convention is not really a convention but a "shadow convention," and especially when the politics being convened is not the old-fashioned kind but a new, revolutionary kind of politics that will "transcend the old categories of left and right." Arianna Huf-fington has been learning this lesson the hard way all summer. While Americans across the country-hundreds of them! maybe thousands!-eagerly await the twin spectacle of the Republican and Democratic conventions in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, the syndicated columnist and former Newt Gingrich confidant has been trying to round up participants for a self-styled alternative-the Shadow Conventions 2000, dubbed by sponsors as a "Citizens' Intervention in American Politics."