SaysWho? Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/us/politics/dnc-milwaukee-2020.html? Quote The Democratic National Committee has selected Milwaukee as the site of its national convention, placing a spotlight on a key Midwestern battleground state that Democrats lost for the first time in three decades in 2016 and see as central to the party’s efforts to reclaim the White House. The convention will be held next year on July 13-16 in the newly built Fiserv Forum, a 17,500-seat arena that’s home to the N.B.A.’s Milwaukee Bucks. Milwaukee was selected over a pair of larger Sunbelt cities, Houston and Miami, to host the event. Milwaukee organizers raised more than $10 million and reassured officials that they had secured sufficient hotel capacity for the event, ameliorating concerns that the city lacked the finances and infrastructure to support an event that regularly draws tens of thousands of out-of-town activists, officials and media. Quote Democrats won back the governorship of the state in 2018, assuaging some concerns that Wisconsin was drifting away. Still, some in the party are urging the 2020 candidates to broaden their focus beyond the upper Midwest to the rapidly growing Sun Belt states. Democratic officials worried about the optics of hosting a convention in Houston, a city dominated by the oil and gas industry, at a time when Democratic activists are focused on combating climate change. Before 2016, the last time a Democrat lost Wisconsin in a presidential election was 1984 when Reagan swept 49 states. Wisconsin was VEERRRYYYY close in 2000 and 2004, however, with Democrats winning by 0.22% in 2000 and 0.38% in 2004 (the closest of all swing states that year). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 Actually, it's pronounced "mill-e-wah-que" which is Algonquin for "the good land." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 I love how the article frames combating climate change as an activist thing, and not something that needs to be done for the sake of large scale human habitation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 8 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: I love how the article frames combating climate change as an activist thing, and not something that needs to be done for the sake of large scale human habitation Damned Human Lobby™! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSoxFan9 Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 A fitting place to nominate Bernie Sanders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_Wisconsin?wprov=sfti1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbobo Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 smart pick after the 2016 election Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 That's one way to not neglect Wisconsin again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodimus Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 I agree a good location over Houston and Miami. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 Passed over Houston for Milwaukee? Sure, don’t even try to make Texas close or win. Definitely don’t want to energize Dems and potential Dems there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 8 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said: Passed over Houston for Milwaukee? Sure, don’t even try to make Texas close or win. Definitely don’t want to energize Dems and potential Dems there. The location of the convention has 0 to do with any of that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreePi Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 What are the requirements for attending? I'm like 30 minutes away from Milwaukee. I intend to vote straight D from now until the end of time, but I have to imagine that would be absolutely insufferable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anathema- Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 meh-I-waukee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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