Washington Post ranks 2016 GOP convention cities: Guess where KC sits?

ranks the competing cities

for the 2016 Republican Convention.

, Ohio.

Note to Las Vegas

.

So Kansas City, which is right in the middle, is, uh, right in the middle.

From the

:

“Kansas City has been agitating for the convention for the better part of the past year (and has regularly been a bridesmaid in this process). Last week the Kansas City contingent brought out

, who was nominated as vice president the last time the party held a convention in K.C. in 1976, to endorse the idea.

“

: There’s no better way to send a message that middle America matters than to put a convention in, well, the middle of America.

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This story was originally published January 27, 2014 at 3:59 PM with the headline "Washington Post ranks 2016 GOP convention cities: Guess where KC sits?."