After John Sununu formally nominated Mitt Romney to be the Republican nominee for president, the roll call is underway, and Romney has just picked up the 1,144 delegates necessary to secure the party's nomination, with New Jersey putting him over the top.
What happens when 15,000 members of the media are enlisted to 4,400 delegates to the Republican National Convention? You read lots of stories about strip clubs, naturally. It's time for the quadrennial discovery (at least since 1992) that strip clubs love publicity as much as reporters like writing about them!
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