With swing states in their cross-hairs, the Republican party has selected an Ohio city as the next site for the Republican National Convention.
According to the New York Times, Cleveland will host the event during the summer of 2016, as the Republican National Committee "narrowly" chose it over Dallas. While the Times notes that Cleveland is "heavily Democratic," it adds that a bipartisan committee was quite vocal about bringing the convention to the city. Furthermore, the GOP doesn't want a repeat of what happened in 2012:
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Here's a fun fact that the Times threw out there: no Republicans have been elected without winning Ohio. Meanwhile, the Democrats are considering Brooklyn (the Barclays Center, specifically) as the site of the Democratic National Convention.
[via New York Times]
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