CharObs: Will GOP wins hurt chances for NC landing the 2012 Dem Convention?

Worried?

The four states that Democrats are considering to host their 2012 national convention showed off their hospitality last week – to Republicans.

The GOP scored big wins in North Carolina, Minnesota, Missouri and Ohio, all home to cities that are finalists for the Democratic convention.

What that means to Charlotte’s chances is unclear.

“Hopefully, somebody will see that the politics are at worst neutral (or) at best in our favor,” says Will Miller, acting chairman of “Charlotte in 2012.”

But Steven Smith, a political scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, says Charlotte, St. Louis and Minneapolis may have lost ground to Cleveland – despite the fact that Ohio Democrats took a drubbing in their state legislature and Congress. .

“Ohio went so strongly Republican at every level that because of the size of Ohio, it’s going to be given priority in … siting decisions,” Smith says. “You don’t want to give up on a state like Ohio.”

Democrats are expected to name a host city toward the end of the year. Teams of technical advisers visited Charlotte and the other cities last summer. Many analysts say the choice will turn mainly on a city’s convention facilities, hotel accommodations and ability to raise the $40 million needed to help pay for it all.

Not really sure what the point of this article was, when you consider that every state under consideration made significant GOP gains either at the state level, national -or both, as the article noted. What this probably is is the McClatchy-owned Charlotte Observer’s way of letting Democrats in this city – and the ones making the decision on the 2012 DNC host site – know that they’re very concerned about the possibility that this liberal “Queen City” will lose out in the final round.

Whatever. As I’ve said before, just bring it. If it does take place here, I plan on attending – with reinforcements, of course. You don’t think I don’t go alone to a radically fanatical mass gathering of far leftists/Socialists/Communists, do you?