[Drew68]

Is there a viable 3rd-party candidate? Is there a way to end up with a convention floor fight and have Romney lose?

No and no.

There is no 3rd party candidate with any chance whatsoever of beating Obama and there will not be a brokered convention. There will be one man on the ballot that has a chance of beating Barack Obama. His name is Mitt Romney. If you want to defeat Obama, vote for him. If you want to send some kind of message or make a statement, vote for someone else and accept a second term for President Obama. But make no mistake, bury your delusions, these are your only choices.

So now what?

[muawiyah]

The only way to win an election is to hold your base and peel off a faction from the other party.

Mitt starts off with a couple of real problems ~ he's given up the Republican party's Conservative base. The Democrat affiliated factions already have their boy ~ so why should they trade him in for more of the same?

To put it bluntly, Mitt can't win against this or any other Democrat whose able to hold the Democrat base together.

[presently no screen name]

any chance whatsoever of beating Obama

Is drop kick mitt off the ballot!

AP News: Romney Preparing to Drop Out of Race next week and support Speaker Gingrich.

[caww]

these are your only choices

Well yes, that does appear so at the moment. Yet there are 6 months til we actually vote. Time to think it thru for those who aren't certain what to do....I do think some will not make that determination until the very day they vote.