A party platform is an essential component of any convention. It is a document that lays out the party's official position on social, economic and foreign policy issues. A draft is usually presented to the delegates for debate.
This is the 2024 Mock Convention Platform. Copies will also be made available at the Convention.
If you wish to propose an amendment to the platform, please use the forms available on this website. You may propose an amendment before the Convention by emailing mock2024@owu.edu OR during the actual convention.
During the Fall Semester, the Platform Committee held a series of platform hearings designed to educate the campus about just a few of the issues at stake in the coming election. Hearings were held on United States & China Relations, Morality in Politics, and Inflation & Debt.
Both the Democrats and Republicans hold platform hearings at their nominating conventions every four years. At the platform hearings, party members review a draft of the party platform (usually drafted before the convention). These party members then discuss and debate (1) the final issues that will be included in the official platform, and (2) the party's positions on those issues. Once agreed upon by the committee, the final draft of the party platform will go to the convention floor for a vote.
The panel for the hearings comprised estemmed faculty members including Ji Young Choi (International Studies), Franchesca V. Nestor (American Politics), Goran Skosples (Economics), Jason Timpson, Ashley Biser (Political Theory), Krystal Cashen (Psychology), and Ashley R. Kennard (Communications).
These respected academicians bring diverse expertise and insights to the panel(s).
Foreign Policy - United States - China Relations
October 3, 2023, 4:30 pm Benes Room B, Hamilton Williams Campus Center
Morality in Politics
October 18, 2023, 12 p.m. Hamilton Williams Campus Center 312
Inflation and Debt
November 2023, 12 p.m., R.W. Corns Building 312