You're right. That's EXACTLY why Mitt Romney won the nomination in 2008 - oh, wait.
We haven't had a brokered convention in a generation, or longer. If you can convince enough Republicans, and in some states independents too, that you're the man for the job, you'll win. If you can't, you won't. Old men huddled in back rooms smoking cigars has nothing to do with it, although those guys make for great fall men when incompetent candidates fall flat on their faces.
i see you only use the term “man” in your post. Which says all it needs to say all on its own. The days of it being an all male leadership are over.
“Old men huddled in back rooms smoking cigars has nothing to do with it, although those guys make for great fall men when incompetent candidates fall flat on their faces.”
Old men huddled in back rooms made the rules that allowed cross over voting so that Democrats and liberal Independents could decide the Republican candidate. How do you think McCain won Florida....?