Under the headline “While Republicans Stressed Unity, Democrats’ Convention Schedule Already Shows Division,” Susan Jones writes in a Sept. 3 CNSNews.com article that Michelle Obama “will address — separately — several key Democratic constituencies as they divide themselves into smaller groups based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual preference.” By contrast, Jones wrote, ‘Speaker after speaker at the Republican convention … are racial or ethnic minorities who stood up to celebrate the values and dreams they share with all Americans.”
Of course, caucus groups are not the same as intra-party “division,” no matter how much Jones and CNS would like it to be. Further, Jones failed to mention one actual division at the Republican convention — an attempt to change the rules of how delegates are selected that, in the words of CNN, pitted establishment Republicans against “the likes of Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and grassroots activists.”
Jones offered no evidence of that kind of actual division at the Democratic convention.