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Now, it is mostly proportional to the vote. So if Fred hangs in there with the vote totally split up in the remaining primaries, he could be walking into a brokered convention with a pile of delegates to play with.
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What exactly does that mean? He has 200 walking in and Romney has 1000 walking in. Are you creating a fantasy of it being easier to find the 900 delegates needed to move to Fred than it is for Romney to find the 100 he would need to win? What sense can that make?
What deal do you think he makes with 200 delegates? He doesn’t want to be VP, he claims. So then what does he want, and why would you think the delegates are obligated to do what he tells them?
The “brokered convention” nirvana of the unfunded candidate not winning primaries is a fantasy that in real life does not put them on the podium giving acceptance speeches.
O.K. I feel the need to add my two cents.
I’ve been Phoneing Fror Fred to S.C. and unless everyone is lying to me, or I’m calling a Fred hotspot, NO ONE has told me they are voting for McCrazy and only ONE person said they were voting for ther Huckster.
Everyone else said they (and everyone they know) are voting for Fred, or leaning that way!
It is quite simple. A candidate needs a majority of delegates to win. If the candidates with the most delegates is unacceptable to a majority of delegates, it opens the door to “dark horse” coming through as a compromise nominee.
This is not a fantasy scenario, it is what has often occurred at deadlocked conventions in the past. We have not had such a convention in recent memory, so who knows what will happen.