Choosing a Republican candidate isn’t a done deal until the balloons drop.
If Romney doesn’t clinch the nomination on the first vote, it’s going to be a free-for-all.
In the 1920 Republican Convention, it took 16 votes for a candidate to be chosen - Warren Gamaliel Harding. His running mate was Calvin Coolidge. They were not anticipated to be the candidates but both men went on to make history.
It happened before, it can happen again!
And it's possible Salma Hayek will ditch her billionaire husband and marry me.
Sadly the GOPe will never let that happen.
Who here really doubted they Mitt would come out on top?
He is so far above the threshold, the only vote will be a symbolic one, all the paperwork will have been completed before the first camera is turned on.
That was a unique situation. That was an open convention to begin with and there was no frontrunner leading up to it. In that convention, you had four candidates (including Harding) coming into the convention with nobody having near the amount of pledged delegates to secure the nomination.
It would be as if Gingrich, Santorum, Romney and Ron Paul had more or less an equal amount of delegates in the primaries, none of them attaining even close to the amount needed.
In 2012, Mitt Romney clearly has more than enough delegates to win the nomination on the first ballot. Further, it is also clear that the apparatus of the GOP is fully behind Romney. Adequate money is being raised and while voter enthusiasm for Romney may not be ideal, he is clearly the man the GOP is going to run.
In case I haven't made myself clear, there is virtually ZERO chance of a brokered or an open convention. Hate to be a killjoy but there will be no "Ronald Reagan" riding to the rescue. Nor will Sarah Palin be popping out of a giant cake on the convention floor (as much as I'd like to see it) to wrest the nomination out of Romney's grasp.
You really do want Obama HUSSEIN to win, don’t You!
It’s pur Lunacy to think You are going to overthrow Our Candidate now!
Trick will be to up-end Romney at the convention while at the same time side stepping the Paulbots. I think Palin couold pull it off.