Why do you say Clinton?

This, from the Daily News, via Gothamist:

Sen. Hillary Clinton, the early front-runner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, is pushing to have her party's nominating convention held in New York City, the Daily News has learned.

I'm curious if anyone has seen something different? 

Dissent Protects Democracy.

Seeing as she has to win those states to be President, that seems highly doubtful.

Will they actually go through with it? Demver was awarded the 1972 Winter Olympics but pulled out later.

As an avid hiker, I can only applaud (not that there is anything wrong with Catskills).

The show of pushing into Mountain states will be probably well received everywhere: everybody likes the images of open ranges, big sky etc., as opposed to villification of coastal liberals or southern rednecks (however unjustified they may be).

I can also picture Democratic nominee (especially if female) hauling to Denver a carcass of some big game animal from a fresh kill in some nearby forest, and making a trial run (however brief) in a rodeo.

On edit: about the carcass --- perhaps some big fish will do.

As a life-long Dem living in northern NY state, this feels right to me. As for Senator Clinton, she doesn't need to worry about carrying NY & the Northeast in general, should she be nominated (& I'm not saying she should be). I think the choice of Denver sends the right political message to follow on re3cent gains by Dems in the mountain West.

As a New York senator, she has to "push" for the convention, but I didn't sense any kind of urgency or threat on her part. New York doesn't provide any political advantage, the dramatic backdrop of the Rockies will be much better for the voters she's trying to court, and if a big NYC Democrat has a few dollars burning a hole in his pocket, she'd prefer that they go to her rather than to pay for streamers and security at Madison Square Garden.

For that matter, I don't even think New York City fought tooth and nail for it. The city feels obligated to make a run at every convention, just as the Yankees try to win the World Series every year. Once a decade is enough and the GOP was here in 2004.

It takes a tremendous amount of private fundraising to mount a convention, and, at this point, Bloomberg would also rather hit those donors up for other things. New York hotels are full during the summer anyway, and without all of the security and logistics headaches.

There's another reason why Denver makes a good choice.  The city has undertaken a series of initiatives which, properly highlighted by those planning the Convention, would serve demonstration of issues which the Democratic Party should emphasize in its campaign.  For example, Denver is undertaking major environmental initiatives.   

Additionally, Denver governmental agencies working in partnership with the Homebuilders Association are promoting a green building campaign.

And one last example:  The Denver Regional Transit District is investing heavily in a variety of transit projects which should both reduce congestion and make a contribution to reducing dependency on foreign oil. 

There will be many photo opportunities to highlight these and other local initiatives which represent the difference between Democratic action and Republican inaction. 

aMike

Just make sure your "grand strategy" doesn't forget Florida, Missouri, Iowa and Arkansas. (The rest of the South -- including West Virginia -- can go fly a kite. That's even if Edwards gets nominated -- he could make a token effort in North Carolina for pure appearance's sake, but he has no hope of carrying it and he doesn't need it.)

ummm. NO. Denver awarded the 1976 Olympics. The 1972 Olympics were always meant for Sapporo Japan. In 1972 the voters in the Denver area got to vote on whether or not Denver should actually host the Olympics and they voted "NO" because of feared damage to the environment that would be caused by building many of the facilities needed for the Olympics. The IOC then awarded the 1976 Olympics to Innsbruck, which had hosted the Olympics in 1964 and already had the facilities in place.

As there is little chance of lasting environmental damage to the Denver area from hosting a convention, I think your fears of Denver pulling out are pretty unrealistic. There's a huge difference between an Olympics and a convention.

CSCS,
I am sure Reed was being sarcastic about HRC. Do you think all the DLC'ers want to go out to Denver? Dean is in charge of building the party. It was the right decision. The Dems can confine the Repubs to the South if they play their cards right.

I'm starting to come around to the view that Florida is a lost cause in terms of big picture electoral votes. To me the northern part is fast becoming like Georgia or South Carolina except with islands.

Don't give up on Florida, but we need long term plans there like we have in other southern states.