“I’m sure the Duncans and Tancredos et. al. are decent people...but they have shown no ability to gain broad support. If we divide the conservative vote between four or five candidates, Rudy will win the nomination with 25 or 30%.”
Not an expert on all the rules related to state primaries and the Republican Convention, but it seems we could have a convention where no candidate arrives with the nomination won, and for the first time in years, the convention delegates might actually pick the nominee.
Doesn’t a candidate have to have a majority of the delegates to the convention to win the nomination?
Some of the primary states are ‘winner take all’ states, where you can win all the primary delegates just by coming in first in a crowded field.