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The Democrats' nominating convention is still six months away. It will be held Jons 7 in the Richmond Coliseum, and past conventions have usually done little to enhance the Democrats’ image with the broad mainstream of Virginia voters. Sometimes it; has seemed that the state’s Democrats have forgotten the rather elementary proposition that the approval of a majority of theee voters is necessary in order for the party’s candidates to prevafl.
AO too often in the past the perception of the Democrats in convention efimhlnd has been one of a gathering of noisy Actions, many of which were more interested in the philosophical parity of the party than in winning at the pods.
It is in the hope of changing this perception that Andrews has plunged into the bread), or perhaps more accurately, into the Bon’s den.
His proposal is designed to change the convention from the present forum for activists from the various lRwraLlbstfaMraf that* party to a convocation of prtatt**' cal politicians more concerned with doing what a political convention of either party is supposed to do. That is, nominate winning candidates.
The ground rules for the 1965 convention have not been spaded out The party will decide on them in February. But in the past the delegates have been elected at mass meetings, or caucuses, in the counties and titiss. As a general rule thoae who attend the caucuses are those party activists who represent the more liberal Democratic constituency groups. (The term "mass meeting” was officially changed to “caucus" at a Democratic State Central Committee meet
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