because the convention will only be shown locally in Dallas??
Dallas is very spread out. Their venues are not close to each other. Everything in Dallas is at least thirty minutes away from everything else and they are always in the opposite direction from where you came. If you are from Dallas or have spent much time there you know I speak the truth. Not to mention the traffic!
One of the things that Cleveland emphasized is their tight Downtown venues. The Arena, the Ball Park, the New Convention Center , and Medical Mart the football stadium the main hotels, casino, large shopping mall and train station are all interconnected.
The nominee and his entourage can fly into the Downtown Burke Airport by private jet take a five minute ride to the Ritz or Renaissance located adjacent to the Q arena or the Hilton adjacent to the Convention Center and the Global Center for Health Innovation be walked to either the arena or the Convention Center in complete privacy and out of sight of the public via interconnected tunnels or sky walks.
The Conventioneers will have tons of activities all within walking distance of their Downtown hotels including live theater performances, live entertainment, table and slot gaming, sporting events shopping, dining at World class restaurants and bars (including, but not limited to ‘the Canadian Ballet’) . All without hailing a cab or getting on a shuttle.
By shuttle, cab or public transportation(train, BRT, or bus) they are literally less than 10 minutes from University Circle with even more World Class cultural, educational and music venues like The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, The Western Reserve Historical Society, the Botanical Gardens, MOCA Cleveland, Severance Halls and one of the best Little Italy's in America.
A short trip West(five minutes)just over the bridges to the Ohio City & Tremont neighborhoods is the top notch Metro Parks Zoo & Rain Forrest, entertainment, dining district and clubs.
Reince Priebus stated more than once how impressed and surprised he was personally about the city. He said more than once how he liked the inter-connectivity of the venues and the vast amount of close entertainment that the conventioneers could chose from.
A convention is more than a TV event. It is a payoff and huge party for the people that the party need to work and volunteer. They are the people who push for victory, raise money, knock on doors, make phone calls, stuff envelopes and GOTV.
The Republican Sight Committee wanted their delegates to be in a place that offered a great deal to do close to the convention so they wouldn't have to spend all their time in traffic. Cleveland offers the conventioneers anything they would like to do within ten minutes of their hotel room and the City pitched that aspect heavily.
Cleveland worked harder for this convention and wanted it more than the other cities and the sight committee agreed.
Cleveland will put on a great show for the Republicans.
As a Clevelander I am very proud of the City and how the leadership in the private and public sectors worked to get this Convention and they should be cheered, not run down by a bunch of ignorant fools.
Noooo. Nothing beats face-to-face interactions with people so that you can explain what conservative principles are. YOu’re not going to get that on TV, where the cameras cut away from minorities in the audience, search out Code Pink/Libertarian disruptors and show the speeches from goofy, nervous no-names.