Comments about ‘Salt Lake City shows interest in 2012 GOP convention’

What better way to say "we no longer hold any important offices in Salt Lake County" than by bringing the GOP National Convention here?

Remember the warm welcome George W. Bush got here? Maybe Provo could host it!

As someone who has been to 7 National Political Conventions, I know it would be a great financial boost for the community. Utah would be a great place to host the GOP Convention. I wish the committee well who is trying to pull this off.

Awesome! Go for it! It would bring MILLIONS to the City. I'd say the same thing if it were for the Democratic National Convention.

That is great, i cannot think of a more homogenous and right wing thinking area than SLC

Provo should be the host city if it comes to utah. That is the Repbulican captial of the world.

The host committee will be asked to raise more than $60 million if the requirements are similar to 2008 Minn-St Paul. SLC can certainly handle the accomodations and technical aspects, but I don't know if there is that kind of funding to hand over to the RNC to have their parties outside the hall. The stuff in the convention hall is funded in another manner including federal taxpayer subsidies.

If the GOP continues its path towards the extreme right, a convention in SLC makes total sense. If instead they want to win in 2012, they need to distance themselves from some of the more crazy ideas (e.g. Obama birth mania craziness) that have taken center stage this year. That means picking a more purple state, i'm afraid.

This will NEVER happen.

First, there are political motivations for holding a convention in a given city. Utah is solidly Republican and so neither party really bothers to campaign in the state at national levels. Holding the convention in SLC would not help the party in any way. That is why Denver got the Democratic Convention and guess what? The previously red state turned blue.

Second, the only way the Republicans hope to recapture the White House is to appeal to moderates. Moderates of either party and independents think of Utah as right wing wacko country (I'm not making this claim..it is just a fact politically). The GOP will try to present itself as a more moderate party in hopes to capture more of the ever-shrinking US middle. The fundamentalists in the southern US would also object to SLC because they reject the LDS faith.

I predict the GOP convention will be held in a swing state. I'd say New Jersey or Virginia where Republicans lost ground in the last presidential election but gained some momentum in the recent elections.

I think that Salt Lake City would be a great place to hold the 2012 RNC. Salt Lake City could make good money off of having the convention.

It is true that generally the parties like to go places where they are making in road and gains. That is why the Democrats went to Colorado (they've made lots of inroads there, but Republicans still outnumber Democrats in Colorado) and Republicans went to Minnesota, because Republicans picked up the Governor's Seat and Sr. Senate Seat, unfortunately everything collapsed for the GOP in Minnesota.

I think Salt Lake City is a contender, but I know that New Orleans, Indianapolis, Boston, & Atlanta have shown greater interest over the past several months.

100 percent right.