You are seriously proposing that Iowa, New Hampshire, and SC should be the only states that count votes before conservatives unite? Yer smokin’ yer socks.
Besides, your facts are wrong. Giuliani, Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson withdrew in January. Romney withdrew the first week of February. Huckabee was obviously the frontrunning conservative, and he only lasted until the first week of March.
The problem was that the supposed conservatives mostly endorsed McCain instead of Huckabee (the only real stop-McCain candidate).
The schedule in 2016 is different than before,if you have not had a chance to keep up. South Carolina is the 6th primary in 2016. Here is the sequence of primaries n 2016:
IA, NH, CO, UT, NV & SC
Results of these primaries will be a good indicator of who is connecting with voters.
You are not focusing on my main point in 2008 & 2012. Which is that one RINO McCain in 2008, and ONE RINO Romney in 2012 were running against a multitude of conservatives. Why? The reality is, there the electorate is not sufficiently conservative to anoint multitude of conservatives over a single RINO. The reality is there are a lot of so called “moderate” republican voters.
Please do not use tactics of liberals, by focusing on incidental details instead of the main issue.