By contrast, defenders argue that, besides promoting party unity and enthusiasm, conventions allow compromise and tend to produce nominees and platforms that represent the political centre rather than the extremes.
"I say, God bless people for getting off their chairs!" But in her bid for the Republican Senate nomination, for which she is one of three candidates, she said the party needed to produce nominees who could win and be unified.
The fallout: In a category where a tie (or two) produced seven nominees, the omission of nine-time nominee Julianna Margulies was (to use a word that gets bandied about way too much in these types of things, but in this case is indeed applicable) shocking.
Aiming to widen the field to attract more viewers to the annual Emmys broadcast, the television academy expanded both the best comedy and drama categories to provide for six nominees this year, but ties in the balloting produced seven nominees in each.
Many Republicans still have painful memories of the last two elections, when contentious primaries produced Senate nominees such as Todd Akin in Missouri, Richard Mourdock in Indiana, Sharron Angle in Nevada and Christine O'Donnell in Delaware.
They worry that the speeded-up process has produced a nominee who has not been fully vetted and has cut short the Democrats' months-long dominance of news coverage.
History recounts that bitterly contested nominations usually produce losing nominees.But it doesn't have to be that way.
Combined, the two presidential nominees produced the first smash hit of the new television season.
She said that during her term, parent-elected trustees rarely challenged Group B. This year, however, Group A produced its own nominees for Group C, different from Group B's choices.
First, the move to 10 nominees produced its own wave of critics, armchair and industry insider alike, who grumbled that the expansion would dilute the value of being noticed; or that there should have been a companion doubling of best director nominees; or that the Academy couldn't come up with 10 good movies, period.
