The Republican National Committee has chosen Cleveland, Ohio to host the 2016 GOP Convention. Cleveland is as good as most cities - not as good as some others. If the thinking is that it will bring in some votes in this battleground state, perhaps the RNC should have asked Mitt Romney how his Florida convention helped him win that state? He didn't of course. Which makes the choice of Cleveland largely irrelevant as far as politics is concerned. BBC: The Republicans are eager to retake the White House in 2016 after eight years in opposition under President Barack Obama. Many Democrats, meanwhile, are pinning their hopes on popular former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The Republicans' choice of a city in Ohio is noteworthy because the state is perennially one of the most fiercely contested in the nation. It offers a prize of 18 electoral votes - there are 538 in total, with 270 needed to win the White House - and is virtually evenly divided between...(Read Full Post)