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RZM

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9. The paramount concern was picking a place that would most benefit the president's campaign

Reply to Better Believe It (Reply #8)

Wed May 9, 2012, 08:26 PM

May 2012

To quote Karl Rove on election night in 2008 - 'without North Carolina, Republicans aren't in the game.' I actually think Romney will win North Carolina. But it's going to cost him time and resources that he would prefer to spend elsewhere.

So that's why it was chosen. Same reason the DNC picked Denver last time and the same reason the RNC chose Tampa. You take the good with the bad. Perhaps if North Carolina turns bluer, it might become a more union friendly-state. You don't make it bluer by running away, you make it bluer by spending time, money, and energy there.

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Activists Want Democratic Party Convention to Move out of North Carolina After Amendment One Passage [View all] Better Believe It May 2012 OP

So lets take our marbles because we didn't get our way and move it to another state. southernyankeebelle May 2012 #1

Fuck Charlotte! Chan790 May 2012 #2

What state would meet that criteria? None on the Gulf or southeast, Northeast/Pacific NW are kelly1mm May 2012 #3

not that the wingnuts will care but our party cannot have the convention there now Demonaut May 2012 #4

Charlotte voted overwhelmingly against the bigot amendment emulatorloo May 2012 #5

I said on another thread that this idea is the antithesis of Dean's 50-state strategy RZM May 2012 #6

Running to the most right-wing "right-to-work" union free state is not the answer. Better Believe It May 2012 #8

The paramount concern was picking a place that would most benefit the president's campaign RZM May 2012 #9

The national Democratic Party is spending time, money and energy in NC to do what? Better Believe It May 2012 #11

Shouldn't have been there in the first place. Brickbat May 2012 #7

That would be me. Zorra May 2012 #10

I think it is a not a good idea to buy into the opposition's false dichotomies. nt patrice May 2012 #12