[counterpunch]

The GOP does not have a super delegate system.

I am aware, and if you re-read the scenario I laid out again, you will see that it does not include one for the GOP. My scenario envisions the likely event of Republicans come out of the Primaries with all candidates remaining in the race until at least Super-Tuesday, and no candidate reaching 50% of the total delegates. What happens next is at the convention, every delegate must cast a ballot for the candidate they are pledged to. But after that, they are free agents. In a sense, all delegates become "Super Delegates" It becomes something like the Democrat's Iowa Caucus, where everyone starts trading horses. This process heavily favors 2nd choices, which means it would heavily favor Fred Thompson, and disfavor Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee in particular.

This will utterly confound the Democrats, leaving their nominee exposed to attack but no one on the Republican side for them to target.

 

[doug from upland]

Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that you didn’t know. :)