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RNC will test whether event can nudge Florida swing votes

Larry Jacobs notes the location of GOP and DFL National Conventions is not a factor in election.

But Lawrence Jacobs, a University of Minnesota political science professor, said that while there are many factors in determining presidential winners and losers, where the presidential nomination convention is held is not much of one.

HT Politics
August 26, 2012

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