[Political Junkie Too]

Except that, technically, the last convention sets the rules on how the delegates will be won in the primaries prior to the next convention. Then, conveniently, the next convention gets to change the rules on how they're counted.

-PJ

[BuckeyeTexan]

Not in actuality. The convention sets the rules for the convention. The standing rules committee proposes and adopts a set of rules (”more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules”) for the next primary, which the convention can amend any way they see fit.