The details remains sketchy. But based on a press conference held moments ago by McCain campaign chairman Rick Davis, the Republicans are planning to cancel or radically scale back some or perhaps even all of this year’s Republican convention. All that seems certain now is that the convention will be called to order tomorrow afternoon and stay in session for roughly two hours — between 3 PM and 5 PM local time. They’ll do some official business but eschew openly partisan activities.
From there forward it appears they’ll wait to see just how protracted and bad the landfall in Louisiana is, and then go from there, deciding on a day by day basis how much of a convention to hold on that day.
Davis still left the question up in the air. But it appears that there is a good chance that McCain will give his acceptance speech not in person in Minnesota but rather by satellite link somewhere in the Gulf region.
