Tampa Florida To Host Republican National Convention

TAMPA, FL - JULY 13: John Winskas, a student in the nanotechnology research and education center at the University of South Florida, looks through a microscope on July 13, 2012 in Tampa, Florida. Tampa has opportunities for employers and employees in such high tech industry as agritechnology, aerospace, digital media, energy technologies, life sciences and medical technologies. The city will host the 2012 Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum August 27-30 where the party is expected to officially nominate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as their nominee to face President Barack Obama in November in the general election. The convention will host 2,286 delegates and 2,125 alternate delegates from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and five territories as well as scores of journalists, guests and protesters. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)