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Here's the republican scenario I find interesting, and I don't think it's way out there.

Posted by pmb (aka pmb) Mar 13 '12, 15:09

Santorum wins both tonight (even by small margins). Gingrich drops out now (or soon). Romney, as he likely will, gets enough delegates to win the nomination. But Satorumomentum continues. He wins possibly more states than Romney and is neck and neck or ahead in polling come convention time. I'm not sure how many "superdelegates" there are on the GOP side who might turn or delegates that aren't committed to vote first round for their candidate. Imagine if the GOP nominee at the time of the convention doesn't have majority support of his party. Now, I recognize the likelihood is that when Romney hits his magic number states will likely start to fall in line, but it's not completely implausible that things could turn this way.

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if they go to convention without a nominee isn't there some nonsense that says Palin could just show up and try to take it? - stewie Mar 13, 15:18 2
- I'm not sure "trying to take it" is accurate, but a brokered convention could mean anyone. -- (link) - mara Mar 13, 15:23
- exactly, after the first round of delgate voting, it's an open field, iinm. -- nm - znufrii Mar 13, 15:19
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- heh -- nm - znufrii Mar 13, 15:21
8:00? is that when we start reporting? -- nm - jones Mar 13, 15:15 2
- AL at 7pm, MS at 8pm, iirc -- nm - znufrii Mar 13, 15:16
- excuse me. eastern. or is it 9:00? it's 9:00, isn't it? -- nm - jones Mar 13, 15:16
Gingrich has already said he isn't dropping out regardless on tonight's outcome, he's planning on going all the way to the convention. -- nm - znufrii Mar 13, 15:11 3
- His cash might dry up. Unless he's being funded by Romney at this point. -- nm - pmb Mar 13, 15:15 1
  - he's got his pet billionaire funding his Super PAC... -- nm - znufrii Mar 13, 15:17
- all is proceeding as Sarah has foreseen -- nm - pixitude Mar 13, 15:12

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Here's the republican scenario I find interesting, and I don't think it's way out there.

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