Boston Globe cartoonist goes 'couch potatoe' for conventions

Biden for VP: A recent sketch by Boston globe cartoonist Dan Wasserman.Dan Wasserman, the editorial cartoonist for the Boston Globe, is cartooning the Democratic National Convention from Boston due to cutbacks in the newspaper's travel budget and the growth of 24-hours cable news and web coverage of the event.

While in today's era it's possible to cover the conventions from hundreds of miles away, undoubtedly there are things that will be missed, as Wasserman recounts on his blog:

I remember in 1988, walking out of the Superdome in New Orleans during the Republican convention and witnessing Richard Lugar emerging from a car. He had just been informed moments earlier that his fellow Indiana senator, Dan Quayle, had been tapped as George Bush's veep nominee. He was ashen and panting in short, panicky breaths.

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