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Brokered convention

A brokered convention is a situation in United States politics in which there are not enough delegates won during the presidential primary and caucus elections for a single candidate to have a pre-existing majority, during the first official vote for a political party’s presidential candidate at its nominating convention.

Why are they talking about doing this? We haven’t had the primaries yet, how do they know who is going to vote for who? I thought we had a Republic Nation where the VOTERS got to decide the elections....

I guess it’s time to bring up the ‘draw bridge’ and those on one side votes with the GOPE and RINO base and the others vote for Trump.....

Sorry people, but as I have said all along, from the day that Trump came down to the lobby of the Trump Towers he was my candidate 100% and no one is going to change my mind, if I can’t vote for Trump, then I’m done voting in any election....

I cannot believe that these ‘gravy train’ people are so worried about their money and greed and not worried about the safety of America and Americans....

What a total disappointment this has become to see how they are stabbing the American Citizen in the back....

Re: “ if I canâ€™t vote for Trump, then Iâ€™m done voting in any election....”

So let me get this straight. If Cruz wins the nomination fair and square you will stay home and not vote for him?
OK, now tell us WHY you consider yourself conservative...
This should be good.

We’re talking about this (if I understand correctly), because the RNC has managed to set up states where winners don’t take all. The winner gets a proportionate amount.

Winning primaries even almost all of them might not give him the required sewn up delegates to the convention, to assure him a first ballot nomination.

Then it gets dicey. The party can at some point, step in and start screwing around, perhaps giving the nomination to someone other than the winner in most primaries and caucuses.

To your question, why the talk now, the party may think it has rigged things so Trump can’t possibly get the nomination on the first ballot at the convention.

Maybe they’re right. That shouldn’t make anyone happy. I don’t care who you are for, because it would reveal that no longer could anyone rest assured that fighting to win primaries and caucuses would garner your candidate any more of a chance in future years than Trump would have now.

What a chilling future for us if that works out to be true.

Why are they talking about doing this?

Because of what happened in the 1912 election as a result of the Theodore Roosevelt Progressive/*Bullmoose* third [actually, fourth] party candidacy.

When the dust and smoke was over and the ballots were counted the Republicans and Taft were in a humiliating third place, [fourth, behind Socialist Eugene Debs in Arizona, maybe elsewhere] And Democrat Woodrow Wilson became the president to give us the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Reserve System, to bring back military conscription, aka *the draft* despite his campaign slogan of he kept us out of war during the election, and federalized discriminatory Jim Crow laws under the federalized United States Railway Administration.

That could conceivably result in a similar Hillary victory today, which could be a disaster and atrocity equal to or greater than the Wilson two-term presidency, Carter's single term in the office, or the more recent Obama pismire.

On the other hand: There might be a little light on the horizon about that possibility:

Hillary Clinton: White House Dream Is Over!

Let's see where we are by April 30 of next year.