You don't have to do this, DNC

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• Political conventions are overlong infomercials for partisanship and nominee hero worship. 
• Neither sounds appealing, right? That's why they're also "shows."
• Entertainment is hard. It's best to leave them wanting more. Get in, hit hard, get out. That wasn't the philosophy held on night one of the DNC. 
• The DNC should cut back on the montages and Q and As and give more time for the party's stars to address the nation. 
• This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
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Nobody said putting on a virtual political convention was going to be easy, but Democrats could have done better than this. 

Due to the constraints of the coronavirus pandemic, gone are the old days of gavel-to-gavel coverage on the cable news networks, punctuated by a few hours of A-list speeches in prime time. The 2020 DNC made the right call to keep the program to a tight two hours a night. 

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