"Ron Paul Secretly Won the Caucuses" by David Weigel (Slate)

[tbone717]

Before I go be mindful that a deal can be struck before the first vote. Let's say for example that Romney is 100 delegates shy of the 1144 needed to win on the first ballot. Santorum and/or Newt can communicate with their unbound delegates on the floor and ask them to support Romney instead of themselves so that a brokered convention is avoided. Additionally, if they know they have enough bound delegates on the floor that are reliable enough to vote for Romney they could withdraw and release their bound delegates enabling them to vote for Romney.

The system was set up to avoid exactly what we are hypothesizing that we can pull off. And for good reason. The GOP nominee should be someone who has been victorious throughout the primary and caucus process, not someone that infiltrates the process. Think of how pissed off we would be if Paul was winning state after state, but then we got to the convention and through a "stealth delegate" process a brokered convention was forced and Newt (who won only one contest) became the nominee.

 

[Liberty74]

I don't quite understand how the other campaigns aren't intelligent or capable enough to accomplish the same when it is no secret that this is the objective in the whole process.

Because previous elections the nominee won outright. This time around, many states changed their rules from winner take all to propotional delegates creating a scenario where their could be a brokered convention. If and only if that happens would Paul benefit.

Maybe the other campaigns are in the mentality that there will be an outright winner of delegates, hence no need to play the behind the scene delegate game.

 

[tbone717]

Because previous elections the nominee won outright. This time around, many states changed their rules from winner take all to propotional delegates creating a scenario where their could be a brokered convention. If and only if that happens would Paul benefit.

Maybe the other campaigns are in the mentality that there will be an outright winner of delegates, hence no need to play the behind the scene delegate game.

It is a stretch though to place our hopes on the possibility that a bunch of people on a forum understand the delegate process better than the professionals that are working for the other campaigns.