Anyone else think Boston is a less than stellar convention choice?

[vi5]

I'm a solid northeast librul myself, and I'm largely no in agreement with the southern pandering that many feel needs to be done in order for Dems to be victorious. I simply think the needs of all people throughout all regions of the country should be addressed INCLUDING but not focused on the south.

But that being said, I'm still admittedly uneasy about how a Boston convention is going to play around the country, particularly if Dean or Kerry are the nominee. Sort of a variation on the same feeling a lot of non-Northeasterners get with the concept of a Subway Series in New York. Just that thermay be very little there for people in the midwest and/or south to latch on to.

Now I'm not saying this is some sort of major, horrible thing or that we should have had the convention at a state fair or something....but I'm more just thinking aloud on this topic and wondering if anyone else thinks that a slightly better location could have been chosen. Maybe by that point things will be so in our favor public opinion wise that it won't matter. But with the razor thin margins on things lately I wouldn't be counting on that.

[jonnyblitz]

1. yeah we should have all conventions in the south

with the confederate flag flying high. Its the only way anybody will vote for DEMS. :crazy:

[vi5]

3. Come on.....that's nowhere near what I said.....

And I think I clarified pretty much that I'm against southern pandering and from the NE myself.

But if you think every little tiny thing doesn't count in as close an election as this is going to be, then keep dreaming.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. should have had it in either Houston or Atlanta...maybe Charleston ...imho

[JVS]

4. Somewhere centrally located like Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, or Detroit

would maybe be a bit better

[Atlant]

6. See, the thing is, here in Boston, they actually *LIKE* Democrats.

A lot of the places that people are naming simply can't stand
Democrats, won't ever vote for them, and will make the Democrats
life as difficult as possible.

By comparison, Boston actually likes Democrats and even votes
for them, even if Mass as a whole hasn't elected a Dem Governator
in a long time. Beantown is sufficiently Democratic that if you
want to see Republican protesters, you may have to bus them in!

Chicago's probably an okay choice too, but I seem to remember a
little trouble there the last time we had a big anti-war movement
meet up with a Democratic National Convention, so it's okay that
we're giving them "a miss" this time.

Atlant

[JVS]

8. Detroit loves Democrats more that any city in America 96% in 2000

That is a goddamned Soviet-style election result. We should reward Detroit's loyalty. Lord knows that they could use the money.

[mrgorth]

5. Good point...

esp. with the repugs milking 9/11.

[KharmaTrain]

7. Honestly, Who Cares About Conventions?

The networks long ago realized these parties for being what they were...a one week commercial for their Presidential ticket and a very boring one at that. Short of those who are delegates, want to party or protest, the Conventions have little political impact.

Boston's as good a city to party as any...hopefully the dig is done and everyone should have a good time. By then the candidate will be decided and any "battle" will be verbage on a platform that is rarely paid attention to.

The Repugnicans know where the Convention is doesn't matter. Figure they held parties in San Francisco and won and in Houston and lost. They play it for a GOP commercial for the faithful. The 2000 dog and pony show as purely fantasy TV with all the blacks on stage. As Bill Mahrer said of it "The last time I saw so many black people with whites around them, they were being auctioned".

[Loonman]

9. Boston

They hate us, 'cuz they ain't us.

[EV1Ltimm]

10. Orlando would be nice.

Except there would be pictures of politicians at the Cabaret on the OBT.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. I don't know, I sort of like Boston as a convention site

I see it as the beginning of the end of being ashamed of liberalism.

Who knows, maybe the Republican hordes will react to their party's NYC convention site like the folks in the Pace Picante Sauce ad:

"NOO YORK CITY?"

[DinahMoeHum]

12. Not me. Boston, the hotbed of the 1st American Revolution. . .

that humiliated Britain's King George. . .

will be the sparkplug of the 2nd century American Revolution that will kick out the wannabe King George squatting in the WH.

:kick:

[Some Moran]

13. If the DNC doesn't use that....

Boston is a bad choice.

[SiobhanClancy]

14. You're right...

Boston is exactly the right choice. A better question might have been,"Don't you think it's incredible that Boston,hotbed of the American Revolution,has never hosted a Democratic convention before?"
I should probably mention that I live in Boston(actually Cambridge)