Soccer Dad

A brokered record

I know that supposedly Republicans can't make up their minds. Because of that, next year there will be a brokered convention.

I wasn't sure, but I was pretty certain I've been hearing similar things over a number of campaigns over the past 20 years or so. Was it may imagination? No. Richard Brookhiser writes

I have been writing about conventions professionally since 1976, and following elections since 1968. Every cycle, the breathless pieces on the brokered convention come out.

It never happened in the last 39 years, and it won't happen next year.

Political writers wanting to show off their ability to offer an offbeat analysis figure that predicting a brokered convention will get them noticed. 'When I read something like that, I just tune out.

(h/t OTB)

race 2008.