Let me repeat this: Lincoln won the nomination on the third ballot.
THAT is your answer! So you are hoping the convention decays into chaos so Cruz can "win" on the 3 rd ballot? Well, I doubt that will happen but if it does, it will spell the end of GOP as we know it and guarantee a Hillary win. But hey, you can tell yourself that evil Trump didn't get to be President.
Which ultimately ended up igniting a civil war.
Let me repeat this: Lincoln won the nomination on the third ballot.
2DV I like you, I’ve enjoyed reading your posts for years now.
But with that said there is a HUGE difference between today’s world of nearly instant communication and then. This year’s convention will be televised and analyzed in real-time.
The Convention that Lincoln was nominated in was to put it charitably the equivalent of a dark closet with smoke filled chambers and the decisions being made in secrecy. The people of the United States had no idea what was happening until the decision was made until weeks late and in many parts of the U.S. not for month’s as the speed of communication was slow.
And yes there was the Telegraph, that helped immensely but it was still in it’s youth and hadn’t spread out like it did during the War years and beyond.
A nomination Floor fight will be an ugly thing to see and very few will be happy or accepting of it’s results.