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As veteran politicos like to say, you can almost smell the campaign bus fumes outside the legislature.

Premier Kathleen Wynnes minority Liberal government gave itself a glowing report card Monday, capping an Easter weekend that began with the release of TV ads of her slamming Progressive Conservative rival Tim Hudak for an anti-worker agenda and NDP Andrea Horwath for a lack of vision on transit funding.

Topping the list of Liberal achievements, sent out as a news release Monday afternoon, was a plan for a made-in-Ontario pension plan that the Conservatives noted is some time away from being enacted, if at all.

This is electioneering on the dime of the taxpayer, charged Conservative MPP Vic Fedeli (Nipissing), his partys finance critic.

With the province counting down to a May 1 budget that, if defeated, would spark a spring election, all parties are increasingly on a war footing in case buses are needed to haul Wynne, Hudak, Horwath and reporters around the province.

Everyone is cycling up, said one veteran Liberal.

The NDP, meanwhile, denied an online report Monday that its hierarchy has decided to topple the government over a police investigation into former premier Dalton McGuintys last chief of staff and the alleged deletion of documents in the $1.1 billion gas plants scandal.

New Democrats are focused on getting results for people, said NDP house leader Gilles Bisson, who maintained his party wants to see the details of Wynnes fiscal blueprint before making a call.

The claim that a decision of some kind has been made about the future of Ontarios minority government is a complete fabrication.

Just the same, candidates from all parties are opening campaign offices, nomination meetings are being held and strategies mapped out, with the NDP planning a get-out-the-vote seminar for activists later this week in Toronto. The Tories have 99 candidates nominated out of 107 ridings, while the NDP have 58 and the Liberals 59.

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President Barack Obama's hometown and Hillary Rodham Clinton's home base as a senator are among the 15 cities the Democratic National Committee is considering to host the party's presidential nominating convention in 2016, officials said Tuesday.

The DNC is inviting cities from Miami to Las Vegas to bid to host the party faithful for the made-for-TV festivities. Local officials have until June 6 to submit their proposals or not, if a city declines about how the city would partner with the DNC to stage the massive and costly event.

The cities under consideration are: Atlanta; Chicago; Cleveland; Columbus, Ohio; Detroit; Indianapolis; Las Vegas; Miami; Nashville; New York; Orlando; Philadelphia; Phoenix; Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City.

Democrats' decision is not expected until late this year or early in 2015. Most cities expect the convention to cost between $55 million and $60 million.

Various factors go into deciding where to plant the convention, most notably whether the city has the facilities to stage the pageantry and whether there are enough hotels to house the delegates and media who descend on the region, as well as the ease with which visitors can navigate the city.

In addition, weather has thwarted recent conventions. The Republican National Committee delayed the start of its 2012 convention in Tampa, Fla., because of Hurricane Isaac. Storms forced the Democrats that year to scrap and outdoor rally in Charlotte, N.C. The history would weigh on officials considering storm-vulnerable Atlanta, Miami and Orlando.

Some of the 2016 cities have obvious appeal for Democrats.

Obama calls Chicago home and he will be leaving the White House in early 2017. A Chicago convention could be a nod to his eight years in power and a boost for an Obama presidential library the city is aggressively courting.

At the same time, Clinton grew up the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Ill. The former first lady, senator and secretary of state is considered an early front-runner for the Democrats' nomination if she should run for president in 2016.

Similarly, Clinton represented New York in the Senate from 2001 until she became the nation's top diplomat in 2009. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, accepted his party's presidential nomination during a 1992 convention in New York's Madison Square Garden.

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