I don’t think the folks here know the difference between a contested convention and a brokered convention. Go back and review your government please.
I don’t think the folks here know the difference between a contested convention and a brokered convention
the true difference is one of semantics, and that only recently...any convention failing to nominate on the first ballot is technically ‘brokered’; alternately, it can be referred to as ‘contested’...
in today’s parlance, ‘brokered’ has taken on the sense of interference by party bosses, that may or may not be the sense of a ‘contested’ election where a nominee is produced after floor wheeling and dealing without resorting to obvious manipulation...
whether ‘contested’ or ‘brokered’, a convention is subjected to a good deal of machination and influence peddling, and generally produces a loss for the party...