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2012 GOP Site Selection - Each city has problems

by: Matt

Sat Apr 24, 2010 at 07:00:00 AM EDT

Just like their presidential nominees, the GOP also has a problem with each of their potential host cities for the 2012 Republican Convention:

Insiders say the site selection committee is grappling with issues in each of the finalists—Tampa, Phoenix, and Salt Lake City. Tampa seems to be tops, but there are concerns about being in Florida in hurricane season. Phoenix is blazing hot in August, and some think it's bad image-wise to go to the home of 2008 presidential runner-up, Sen. John McCain. Salt Lake City hosts the Mormon Church, something that could be sticky if Mormon Mitt Romney is the nominee.

Going to Phoenix would be bad image-wise because of McCain? While going to the home of the most draconian immigration law in the nation would do wonders image-wise to attract the Hispanic vote and suburban moderate whites across the nation? McCain is the least of Phoenix's problems.

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2012 GOP Site Selection - Each city has problems | 6 comments

matt, what is the source on the blue box comments? (0.00 / 0)

by: UplandPoet @ Sat Apr 24, 2010 at 12:06:48 PM UTC

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Source (0.00 / 0)

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/wa...

It was linked in the prior sentence as "problem with each"

by: DocJess @ Sat Apr 24, 2010 at 12:18:15 PM UTC

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thanks, well i used to love the us news for its primary coverage, (0.00 / 0)

before the internet, but its politics are very right wing (how come you almost have to be a bigot to be conservative?), so it doesnt surprise me that the anti brown people legislation in AZ would not seem like an issue to them....

by: UplandPoet @ Sat Apr 24, 2010 at 16:10:50 PM UTC

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by the way, if shooting your friend in the face is good for your poll numbers (0.00 / 0)

maybe hosting the convention in phoenix, and taking a excursion to the border and shooting at a few border crossers would probably be a big boost with the tea bag/klan crowd. not sure they have a prayer with the hispanic vote anyway. in fact, i it is hard for me to imagine why more than about 30% that is the extreme base, would consider voting for the clowns that spew hate and create such economic wasteland.

it does make one wonder what the average american voter thinks about.

by: UplandPoet @ Sat Apr 24, 2010 at 12:10:33 PM UTC

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And the nonvoters... (0.00 / 0)

"Didn't vote" would win most US elections. What is the "average" American nonvoter thinking?

by: SarahLawrence Scott @ Sat Apr 24, 2010 at 13:51:48 PM UTC

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actually, for presidential elections, the number tend to run in the 50% range (0.00 / 0)

with only 1996 presidential election having less than 50%, off year elections, which this will be, or midterms, more exactly, the vote is about 37%, but if you figure the Dems get about 50% of the voters who voted, the Gop gets about 50%, and the didnt bother to vote or couldnt vote gets 45% of the total vote, you are correct,

no vote equals 45%
Dem equals 27%
gop equals 27%

by: UplandPoet @ Sat Apr 24, 2010 at 17:57:58 PM UTC

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