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[Kusand]

I can't look/link this up now (at work--too many nosey-parkers and busybodies) but you should look up Ron Paul's delegate strategy. So far, his strategy is working and I don't think the Romney campaign is competent enough to understand what he's doing. If Ron Paul's plan is successful, you will have a brokered GOP convention because nearly half the delegates could be his.

Since Santorum suspended his campaign on April 10, the NY Times delegate counter shows Romney having gained 264 delegates to Paul's 11. Every other delegate counter I could find - WSJ, Real Clear Politics, CBS News - shows roughly the same thing. I looked up the "Paul strategy" and got this from Business Insider and The Week. The gist is that Paul can't really stop Romney from being nominated, the election results mean they're bound to vote for Romney on the ballot for Presidential nominee. But it *will* give Paul clout for setting the party platform.

The term "brokered convention" refers to when no candidate has enough delegates to clearly win the nomination. Romney looks like a lock to win the nomination, since so many delegates are bound by rule to vote for Romney on the first ballot in the primaries. Paul's strategy seems to be to go after other portions of the convention.

Edit: Those totals *are* estimates, so I suppose it's in the realm of possibility to somehow force a brokered convention, but there are very few caucuses left for Paul to steal nominees and keep Romney from getting over the magic number of 1144.

This post has been edited by Kusand: May 10 2012, 12:18 PM

[ThunderDawg]

Is there any organization that breaks more of its own rules than the GOP?

[LisaLisa]

I can't look/link this up now (at work--too many nosey-parkers and busybodies) but you should look up Ron Paul's delegate strategy. So far, his strategy is working and I don't think the Romney campaign is competent enough to understand what he's doing. If Ron Paul's plan is successful, you will have a brokered GOP convention because nearly half the delegates could be his.

Since Santorum suspended his campaign on April 10, the NY Times delegate counter shows Romney having gained 264 delegates to Paul's 11. Every other delegate counter I could find - WSJ, Real Clear Politics, CBS News - shows roughly the same thing. I looked up the "Paul strategy" and got this from Business Insider and The Week. The gist is that Paul can't really stop Romney from being nominated, the election results mean they're bound to vote for Romney on the ballot for Presidential nominee. But it *will* give Paul clout for setting the party platform.

The term "brokered convention" refers to when no candidate has enough delegates to clearly win the nomination. Romney looks like a lock to win the nomination, since so many delegates are bound by rule to vote for Romney on the first ballot in the primaries. Paul's strategy seems to be to go after other portions of the convention.

Edit: Those totals *are* estimates, so I suppose it's in the realm of possibility to somehow force a brokered convention, but there are very few caucuses left for Paul to steal nominees and keep Romney from getting over the magic number of 1144.

I believe he's going all out for a brokered convention. I think it's more realistic that he's able to influence the platform more than Romney wants.