2008 Democratic National Convention
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The 2008 Democratic National Convention will be the 2008 United States presidential nominating convention of the Democratic Party. It will be held from Monday, August 25, through Thursday, August 28, 2008, after the Summer Olympics in Beijing. (The 2008 Republican National Convention will start just 4 days later, on September 1, 2008).
Almost everything else about the 2008 Democratic National Convention is uncertain: where it will be held, who will chair it, what its rules will be, who its speakers will be, and, most importantly of all, who its nominee will be.
A detailed list of potential candidates can be found in Potential Democratic candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
Site Selection
Preliminary
In late November 2005, 35 cities were invited by the DNC (Democratic National Committee) to bid to host the 2008 convention. The cities invited were:Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Memphis, Miami, Miami-Dade County, Milwaukee, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, St Louis, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, DC. [link]
Eleven cities originally accepted the invitation to bid for the convention in January, 2006: Anaheim, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Las Vegas, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New Orleans, New York, Orlando, Phoenix, and San Antonio.[link] A formal Request for Proposal was mailed to participating cities on February 27 and the deadline for cities to respond was May 19, 2006.
Final Three
Only three of the cities that submitted proposals to host the convention: Denver, Minneapolis/St. Paul and New York, remain in the bidding process (New Orleans dropped out on July 12). A 10-member Technical Advisory Committee, appointed by DNC Chairman Howard Dean, visited New York, Denver, and Minneapolis/St. Paul in June, 2006. The DNC is expected to announce the 2008 host city by the end of 2006.[link]Denver
The City and County of Denver is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Colorado. It is located on the plains just east of the Rocky Mountains and forms the heart of the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area. The central downtown district is on the east side of the South Platte River, near its confluence with Cherry Creek, approximately fifteen miles from the foothills. Denver is nicknamed "The Mile-High City" because its official elevation, measured on the fifteenth step of the state capitol building's west side, is one statute mile (5,280 feet or 1,609 meters) above sea level. Also, a row of seats in the upper deck of Coors Field, home of Major League Baseball's Colorado Rockies (NL), is marked in purple (one of the team's colors) to indicate that the row is one mile above sea level. The city's elevation, as surveyed at Denver International Airport, is 5,431 ft (1,655 m).
- Mayor: John Hickenlooper (Democrat)
- Previous Convention(s): 1908-Democratic
- Proposed Site(s): Pepsi Center
- Main Website: http://www.denvergov.org/
- Tourism Website: http://www.denver.org/
- Convention Website: None as of 03:40, Thursday December 03 2009 (UTC)
Minneapolis/St. Paul
Minneapolis is the largest city in Minnesota and the county seat of Hennepin County. It adjoins St. Paul, the state's capital and second-largest city. Together they form the core of the Twin Cities metropolitan area, the 15th-largest agglomeration in the country (and roughly 65th-largest in the world), with over 3,000,000 residents. In the 2000 census, the city itself had a total population of 382,618, making it the 47th-largest city in the United States. However, in the Census' 2004 estimates, that number had decreased to 373,943, putting it in 49th place, between Honolulu and Colorado Springs. If the two core cities themselves were combined together in the census, the resulting "city" would rank 18th, just between Memphis, Tennessee and Baltimore, Maryland. People living in Minneapolis are called Minneapolitans.
- Minneapolis Mayor: R.T. Rybak (Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor)
- St. Paul Mayor: Chris Coleman (Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor)
- 'Previous Convention(s): 1892-Republican
- Proposed Site(s): Xcel Center (St. Paul)
- Main Website: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/
- Tourism Website: http://www.minneapolis.org/
- Convention Website: http://www.minneapolis.org/dnc2008/
New York City
New York City, officially the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States and the most densely populated major city in North America. Located in the state of New York, New York City has a population of over 8.1 million. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated New York City's population at 8,143,197 in July 2005.
- Mayor: Michael Bloomberg (Republican)
- Previous Convention(s): 2004-Republican; 1868, 1924, 1976, 1980, 1992-Democratic
- Proposed Site: Madison Square Garden
- Main Website: http://www.nyc.gov/
- Tourism Website: http://www.nycvisit.com/
- Convention Website: None as of 03:40, Thursday December 03 2009 (UTC)
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