Putting New Spin on Sin City, Las Vegas Woos G.O.P. for 2016 Convention

Almost every imaginable convention has found its way to the Strip. There have been gatherings devoted to electronics, pizza, computers, kitchen equipment and concrete — not to mention guns, butter and pornography. But in the more than a century that there has been a Las Vegas, the city has never hosted a national political convention. Republicans and Democrats have kept their distance from a place that proudly has claimed the m