2008 GOP Convention

For you betting types, here is a list of GOP convention cities where the resulting Presidential nominee has always* lost the national election:

• Minneapolis (1892): Incumbent Benjamin Harrison was renominated at the Industrial Expo Building, only to be steamrollered by ex-President Grover Cleveland in the general election.
  
• Houston (1992): This was the convention where Reagan's farewell address gave us this Ciceronian trifle: "My fondest hope for each one of you — and especially for the young people here — is that you will love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism." [America is selfless?!] Pat Buchanan also uttered some curious lines. Anyway, Bush-Quayle was renominated and then defeated by the merest plurality in the popular vote.
  
• San Diego (1996): Who can possibly forget the legendary Dole-Kemp ticket that came stumbling out of this one?

Granted, unlike in 1892, Minnesota is now a swing state, and the GOP seems to be taking aggressive steps to keep their unpopular party in office. Stepping onto the hallowed ground of Olson, Humphrey, Mondale, and Wellstone will certainly ignite a bit of heat lightning, won't it? (And now I think the GOP's genuinely afraid of Al Franken!) But a curse is a curse, and this leathery crowd of hopefuls doesn't look much better than that stubby 1892 incumbent.

[*Since the GOP has nominated future Presidents at least once in cities where multiple conventions -- even loser-nominee conventions -- have been held (e.g. the gazillion Chicago conventions, San Francisco left and right, and the two classic Miami Beach meet-ups) the word "always" here applies to the three singularities in GOP convention history.]