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Originally Posted by pan6467
Then again, maybe I'm totally wrong.
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You're totally wrong.
There are 463 unpledged delegates to the Republican convention, but the rest (1,917) are pledged, meaning they're required to stick to their candidate on the first vote. Right now, McCain has 870 pledged delegates, and that's not counting the 48 unpledged who have expressed their support for him, or Romney's 286 pledged delegates. McCain only needs 1,191 to win the nomination, and if you count his unpledged delegates plus Romney's delegates who will almost certainly vote for McCain, he already has it. Even without them, he only need to win 321 more delegates in order to win by pledged delegates alone. Huckabee would have to absolutely
crush him to prevent that from happening.