you just undermined your own argument.
If Santorum/Gingrich stay in, in these Southern states where proportional applies, they’re going to split, and that’s going to allow Romney to get more delegates than he should. Look at OK yesterday. The same is going to play out in the other Southern states.
Santorum/Gingrich must combine. Then the person can sweep the south and midwest and get back to an even race. If they both stay in, proportional allocation will destroy them.
Romney doesn’t have to get 1,144. He can get to 1,044 and whatever undecided Supers there are will probably jump on board with him if he has more votes/victories if both Newt and Santorum remain in the race but are several hundred delegates behind.
It’s now or never. Someone’s got to get out, or Romney takes it. If Gingrich exited the race prior to Friday, the whole dynamic would change.
You are not being honest with yourself, sorry. Go through the list. Just “pretend” that it is only Mitt and Rick. Then add up the delegates that you know Mitt will win, no matter what.
Do you REALLY think that Rick can win NY or NJ or CA or MD, just to name a few against Mitt?
Proportional or winner take all, doesn’t matter. I am looking at percentage of total needed.
He doesn’t even need to get the superdelegates. If he can get to 1083, even if Paul doesn’t get even one more delegate, he’ll get Paul to drop out before the convention and direct his 61 delegates to vote Romney.