The date of that article is March 6, with which the quote is contemporaneous. The convention location was announced in August 2014. If you think the GOP had a "splitter strategy" back then, you are delusional. They expected to announce their RINO and coast to victory by carrying Ohio, cheap.
Hence, you're citing bogus evidence in support of your unsupported inferences.
65 posted on 03/06/2016 11:47:32 AM PST by Carry_Okie
(The tree of liberty needs a rope.)