As most of our political scientist readers already know, it is “not going to be in San Francisco”:http://apsanet.org/content_73505.cfm?navID=794. I’ve been hearing that they were either going to do it in LA or in Seattle, and I’m now hearing that they have settled on Seattle. Which would be fine by me (I’m Irish: rain is my natural condition, and it’s one of my favorite US cities).