So what would a contested convention actually look like? How would it work? How did we get here? You have questions; we’ve got answers.
Let’s start at the very beginning. What exactly is a contested convention?
Definitions vary but, generally speaking, a convention is considered contested when it begins with the ultimate nominee still in doubt. Typically, that means no single candidate has locked up a majority of delegates—the threshold needed to win the nomination—by the time the political festivities get underway. In a broader sense, though, a contested convention can happen even if someone does have the necessary majority of delegates as long as one of his or her rivals is unwilling to give up before the convention begins—as was the case in 1980 when Ted Kennedy mounted an unsuccessful last-ditch effort to snatch the Democratic nomination away from then-President Jimmy Carter via a rule change that would have freed pledged delegates to vote any way they wanted on the floor.
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Wicomico County Council Meeting
Joe I just came back from the Wicomico County Council meeting and I must say the meeting was the best I have seen in over a year. The best thing about it was the fact that John Cannon was not there and I saw the meeting ran smoothly and there was absolutely no tension in the room. There was nothing confrontational about or between the President and the County Executive.
Can you please let the public no that we are better off when John Cannon is not at the meetings.
Thank you.
Voting Tax Payer
I think it will get real ugly. I plan to watch it to see what will happen. If the Delegates decide throw it out and pick their own candidate which is rumored to be Paul Ryan it will go bad for both the Republican party and the nation as a whole. In a way I hope this happens! The people need to see that their vote really doesn't count, and they could care less what the people are thinking or feeling! There is a lot of anger out there waiting to boil over. This might just be the straw that broke the camels back!
I plan to cast my vote for Trump after work for whatever it is worth!
322-Paul Ryan already said he's going to do it and that he won't do it. As far as Trump, if he gets 1237, he's got the nomination. If he doesn't, he doesn't.
Paul Ryan also said he didn't want to be speaker of the house because of family issues. Well he became speaker of the house.
Typical politician, says one thing and does another! A true snake in the grass! You watch, Trump will have the votes, but the establishment will throw the popular vote out and put in who they want and not what the people want.
As a person, I really don't like Trump, but I think he has the business savvy and speaks to the silent majority who are tired of business as usual by this government and the political correctness that has sniffled free speech in this country.
Hillary and the lgbt have a war on women passing laws to let men dressed as women enter women's bathrooms,women wise up does Hillary reflect your views?
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