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GOP picks Twin Cities for 2008 convention

Early today Minneapolis-St.Paul were selected to be the host of the 2008 presidential convention. The convention is set to take place September 1-4 in 2008. Minneaplois-St.Paul beat out many large cities that were hoping to hold this convention. These cities included New York City, Clevland, a joint session of Tampa Bay and St. Petersburg. Minnesota was unlikely to host this becuase the state only has 10 electoral vote and has many democratic supporters. New York was the last city to host this event which is also a strong city of democratic supporters, but were delegates that nominated Bush to his second term as president. Officals have predicted that this convention would boost the Twin Cities economy by roughly $150 million.

posted by Anonymous @ 9/27/2006 05:40:00 PM