If no one has a majority, the only way to get to a nominee is for delegates to switch their allegiance
there would be no logjam after the first ballot, if the simple and obvious process of the candidate with the preponderance of bound delegates were the nominee; the artificial impostion of a bound delegate threshold, and then employing tactics designed to prevent a candidate from reaching it, is counterproductive and idiotic on its face...
after all, this is not the general election, in which the opposition party and the entire voting populace is involved...
Tell a Trump voter Cruz stole his or her vote there is still one more Vote and Cruz won’t get their vote on the one that elects the President
“there would be no logjam after the first ballot, if the simple and obvious process of the candidate with the preponderance of bound delegates were the nominee; the artificial imposition of a bound delegate threshold, and then employing tactics designed to prevent a candidate from reaching it, is counterproductive and idiotic on its face...”
Do you really believe that requiring a majority of delegates for nomination is “counterproductive and idiotic”? Or, do you support that position because it is favorable to your favorite candidate?
Politics is the art of building coalitions. Frankly, if a candidate cannot build a coalition sufficient to secure a majority within the rules, then that candidate does not deserve the nomination. And, that statement applies to all candidates.
So the guy with 35%, (or 25, or 10, in a split field) is automatically awarded the nomination?
Dream on.
Do you really not understand the concept that a majority (over 50%) of the party's delegates need to be in support of a candidate? Why would a party nominate someone who can't even win a majority of the party's own representatives (and that's what delegates are, they are our representatives to the party's convention)?
If you don't like how delegates vote, then you need to choose delegates better. This takes time and organization. A party isn't something that comes together in 6 months.