they won't let the fact that it's not a union town get in the way.

The town with more liberal bloggers per square inch. Lots of hotel rooms, but still one of the cheapest large cities in which to stay. And quite frankly, you can't beat our amazing restaurants. The Convention Center is attached to the world-famous Reading Terminal Market, it's a close walk to our Chinatown (which, unlike D.C., is actually full of great Asian restaurants).

Our food scene is as vibrant as our neighbor to the north but a helluva lot cheaper.

Great music scene here, too. (And for those of you from mediocre baseball towns, we'll have playoff action with the Fightin' Phillies.)

We're funky, we're cool, we're ready to host. Go Philly!

Charlotte is also a banking capital.  Not a positive feature IMO.

My soon-to-be home city would be a good choice.  I think this union thing is overrated.  And even though convention sites have no impact on voting in the GE, I do think eventually the Dems are going have to make a play for Texas at some point.

It may be two or three cycles away, but Texas' demographics are moving slowly away from the GOP stranglehold on the state.  And in September (thanks to Karl Rove for later convention dates), the worst of the Texas heat may be avoided.

Please, not Texas.

Not Georgia.

Not Florida, not Utah.

I'd like to see a Midwestern state, preferably one with a good number of electoral votes.  - Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, or Michigan.  Pennsykvania could be a good pick as well.

I live in the Orlando area.  The August-September weather is, in a word, hot.  In two words: hot, humid.  Chance of afternoon thunderstorms near 100%.  Hurricanes are a possibility - the peak of the season is early September.

I'd love the attention a national political convention would bring to Florida.  Only they need to schedule it in November-December-January for best probability of good weather.  And come to think of it, the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary in early January is pretty stupid as well.  Hell, move the Election Day to July 4 and all this stuff starts making sense.

You do not want a convention! The RNC caused local businesses to shut down. Don't even mention the way peaceful protesters were treated. The Teabaggers will descend on the DNC in 2012. UGLY.

We're already hosting the Super Bowl that year, we have tons of convention space and hotel rooms, and we're in a battleground region.

Union town, Harry S Truman, Gateway Arch, Beer and a Shot, and throw in Mark Twain. Missouri and St. Louis just shouts Tradition and Democratic Values at the same time.

Charlotte? Credit card companies and the Research Triangle. Big yawn.

A party and a Party on the Mississippi halfway between New Orleans and Minneapolis sounds pretty good to me. Go St. Louis!

(Indianapolis? My Mom was born and raised in Noblesville, about 18 miles north of Memorial Circle downtown, and my multi-great Grandparents started assembling the family farm in Brownsburg maybe 10 miles west back in the 1820's, with some of them immigrating before Indiana was even a State, but lets face it, excitement in Indiana is hearing the corn grow (no shit you can actually hear it on a quiet night, kind of eerie, I lived out in the corn fields for two years in High School). I am rooting like Hell for the Butler Bulldogs to pull it out tonight, but even if they win I don't expect that Hoosiers will be turning over cars and lighting dumpsters on fire, even though the Final is RIGHT THERE. Indy is just not that fun a town.)

Tampa Bay, as was stated above, has the problem of being near the coast at the peak of hurricane season.  However, Florida would be a huge keep.  I don't think the Republicans have much of an avenue to victory without Florida.  And the Tampa Bay area is a swingy area.

Charlotte, again, is a big state to keep that would cripple the Republicans' electoral chances if we won, and holding onto Mecklenburg County at the rate Obama won it is critical to keeping the state.

Having it in St. Louis may help to win the classic swing state and may help McCaskill in her re-election bid.

Philadelphia, like Florida and North Carolina, is a huge swing state.  We have to win it to win the White House, in my opinion.

Phoenix is in a swingy state and might also help regionally with states like Nevada, Colorado, and New Mexico.  Ensign will be up in Nevada in 2012.

Dallas an area that's moving our way in a state that should move our way eventually.  I just don't see it happening in 2012.  Going in Dallas may help us pick up some seats in the area, but it's a waste of a convention to have it in a state we're probably not going to win anyways.

...the convention held in any closely-contested battleground state, but I voted for Tampa Bay on the hypothesis that it's the most winnable state for us in 2012 that, if we win it, the Republicans are toast.

North Carolina, too, fits the latter part of that description, and maybe it's just as winnable as Florida given the health care reform law (older whites a LOT more hostile than younger and browner voters) combined with NC's demographic trend, but I think NC still is ultimately more conservative overall, and therefore more difficult for us, than Florida.

Phoenix and St. Louis, too, would be fine.

But "union town" isn't something I imagine should matter that much.  I'm not sure the differences in unionization laws are THAT big across the states, and given Missouri's slight conservative lean compared to the country as a whole, I somehow doubt Missouri law is that much more pro-union than NC or Florida law.

On the Republican side, oh please oh please pick Salt Lake City!  Couldn't be more worthless a pick for them!  Does Michael Steele get to decide?......I hope so, the odds of a stupid pick go up exponentially!

DNC Chairman Tim Kaine announced today that the Democrats would hold their 2012 convention the week of September 3.