Amid his health-care push and the need to figure out what he wants to do about Afghanistan, President Obama may travel to Copenhagen to lobby for Chicago as the host of the 2016 Olympics. Seems to me that if he goes, it will be a done deal. Would he risk a high-profile trip if there was a chance of failure?

Mitt Romney, savior of the Salt Lake City winter games, is no doubt watching this with interest.

UPDATE: A reader points out that an awful lot of Chicagoans don’t want the Olympics to come to their city.