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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe DNC chose Milwaukee for the convention with the hope of winning WI.
Recent polls show that this may not be. So I am curious of whether convention locations tilt the balance.
Certainly having the Republican convention in St. Paul in 2008 did not turn Minnesota red.
And I am drawing blank about the 2012 and 2016 conventions..
TwilightZone
(25,342 posts)The UW poll released this week shows Biden, Sanders, Klobuchar and Warren all with a slight lead (within the MOE) on Trump.
The Quinnipiac poll might turn out to be an outlier. We'll know as further polls are released.
Sugarcoated
(7,707 posts)TwilightZone
(25,342 posts)Those are the only two recent polls. The next most recent was second week of January -- Marquette. Biden was +4, Sanders +1, Warren -3, Pete -2.
https://law.marquette.edu/poll/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/MLSP57Toplines.pdf
Sugarcoated
(7,707 posts)2016 was Philadelphia
question everything
(47,263 posts)Is this kind of a bad Karma?
Sugarcoated
(7,707 posts)In regards to 2016, we had a candidate who didn't do well enough with the blue collar Democrats and AA's is the urban areas to overcome the rural woodchuck vote numbers.
question everything
(47,263 posts)Mitt Romney narrowly carried the state of North Carolina, winning 50.39% of the vote to Barack Obama's 48.35%, a margin of 2.04%. North Carolina was one of just two states (along with Indiana) which flipped from voting for Obama in 2008 to voting Republican in 2012. Like Indiana, North Carolina had been a reliably Republican state prior to Obama's 2008 win, having not previously gone Democratic since 1976.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election_in_North_Carolina
RandySF
(57,581 posts)LonePirate
(13,386 posts)There is no excuse for not registering every single person in Milwaukee and its suburbs.
Funtatlaguy
(10,855 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Frankly I think Milwaukee was a horrible choice, particularly since a lot of the reserved hotels are all the way down in Chicago. And Trump has a way of having rallies nearby whenever Democrats do anything, so I assume there will be a Trump rally in Racine for the simple purpose of screwing up traffic to the convention.
There's only so many cities that can really handle a convention, and we should stick to those.
Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)nobody really cares.