The Nation: Who Is Not Voting in Miami Beach

MANY Democratic leaders who might otherwise have been assured delegate's chairs at the convention fetched up as casualties of the party's new reform rules and will be watching from the balconies or back rooms—or from their living rooms at home. A partial list of the unlikely losers who are not going as delegates to Miami Beach for the Democratic convention this year:

Boston's Mayor Kevin White; Harvard Political Science Professor Sam Beer, who helped the McGovern commission write the new rules; Massachusetts Congressman Thomas O'Neill; New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams; former New Jersey...

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