To: savedbygrace
You've highlighted the problem very well.
If Romney gets more state delegates then McCain, the superdelegates will put McCain on top on the first ballot and all hell will break loose.
No candidate produced by a brokered convention has ever won the general--from either party.
To: Cruising Speed
Republicans don’t have superdelegates.
29 posted on
02/03/2008 11:01:48 AM PST by
jmyrlefuller
(NONE OF THE ABOVE IN 2008)
To: Cruising Speed
"No candidate produced by a brokered convention has ever won the general--from either party."
That is an amazing fact. Thanks CS.
35 posted on
02/03/2008 11:07:17 AM PST by
AGreatPer
("The Democrats don't give a rats ass about this country"....Rush Limbaugh, 11/15/07)
To: Cruising Speed
No candidate produced by a brokered convention has ever won the general--from either party.What about Franklin Pierce?
"nominated for president as a dark horse candidate on the 49th ballot at the 1852 Democratic National Convention. In the presidential election, Pierce and his running mate William R. King won in a landslide,"
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