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MADem

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11. I'd say two reasons--outreach and hotel rooms/venues.

Sun May 18, 2014, 01:39 AM

May 2014

The latter they've got from the Olympics; there's infrastructure out there. It's not like they'll all have to be camping or what-have-you. They can be comfortable.

From an outreach perspective, it's been awhile since they've gone out that way. Those western states are growing in population, and it's never too soon to puff 'em up and make 'em feel good, to say nothing of doing a few more things in THEIR time zone, for a change. If we want them on our team, we have to give them reasons to want to work for us. You don't make friends by ignoring a big chunk of your constituency.

Some demographic history from the last Presidential race: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/utah-very-republican-but-not-as-conservative-as-it-appears/

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