The rule change is to allow the Establishment to put a person into play who has not won eight States... or many any states. This might not be the last rule change...
They might as well make a ‘rule’ that says if 10 of them jump up and down while saying ‘boogly wooglly’ that they can nullify every Republican voter in the country.
Why go half way? We’re NOT fooled.
This isn't a rule change - it is the way the rule is currently written. People have mistakenly represented the rule as being that a candidate must have WON a majority of delegates in 8 states, but that is not what the rule says.
40b Each candidate for nomination for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States shall demonstrate the support of a majority of the delegates from each of eight (8) or more states, severally, prior to the presentation of the name of that candidate for nomination. Notwithstanding any other provisions of these rules or any rule of the House of Representatives, to demonstrate the support required of this paragraph a certificate evidencing the affirmative written support of the required number of permanently seated delegates from each of the eight (8) or more states shall have been submitted to the secretary of the convention not later than one (1) hour prior to the placing of the names of candidates for nomination pursuant to this rule and the established order of business.
The real problem is the stacking of delegates who aren't loyal to the candidate who won them. Candidates should be able to appoint their own delegates.
If the delegates were all loyal to the candidate they are bound to, then Kasich's only hope to get 8 states is to win enough unbound delegates to get a majority in 8 different states.
And having a significant portion of your delegates unbound is another form of rigging.