RNC Picks Twin Cities; Hugh Hewitt Reportedly Dejected

I'd imagine that this hasn't been a good year for Hugh Hewitt's considering how his Indians were crushed by the Minnesota Twins this season, Texas defeated Ohio State on their way to the national championship. Now he's learned that the RNC has chosen the St. Paul Xcel Energy Center to host the 2008 Republican National Convention instead of Cleveland.
By choosing the Twin Cities for 2008, the GOP will ensure plenty of news converge in media markets in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa, all battleground states in the 2004 election and ones expected to be competitive in the next presidential race. Minnesota had been seen by some as an unlikely host, with just 10 electoral votes and the nation's longest streak of voting for Democratic presidential candidates.
As Ms. Sidoti notes, putting the Convention in the Xcel Energy Center brings a major focus on the battleground states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa. President Bush won Iowa and came within 11,000 votes of winning in Wisconsin. I'm one of several bloggers who think this was actually much tighter than the vote shows because of the strong likelihood of a significant voter fraud operation by ACT in Wisconsin.

All kidding aside, I think this is a wise choice for 2008. The region has been getting redder with each passing day, partially because of the success of GOP politicians like Mark Kennedy, Norm Coleman and Tim Pawlenty, partially because of the Democrats' pandering to the extremist left in their party.

I suspect that another major consideration is the Xcel Energy Center's being a state of the art venue, often being touted as the premier indoor sporting facility in the nation. It's also a nice setting for Sen. Coleman, who helped win state support for the building while he was St. Paul's mayor. Sen. Coleman will be up for re-election that fall, too.

Congratulations to the RNC for picking the Twin Cities for their next national convention. They simply couldn't have picked a better place.



Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 9:43 PM

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