A Primer on the GOP?s Insanely Complicated Delegate Math

This is extremely confusing, isn?t it? Now you know why Mitt Romney?s rivals, seemingly bested by the cruel God of Math, are confident that they can still take him out. In Louisiana today, set for his worst defeat in the South so far, Newt Gingrich was musing about the rule that allows anyone to be nominated if enough delegates in five states make it so. ?My hope is we will find five states,? he said, ?and I also think, frankly, that the Republican National Committee would be quite willing to have me put in nomination under any circumstance.? A few days earlier, Rick Santorum?s campaign gave reporters a 56-minute briefing on how they?and, to a lesser extent, Ron Paul?would mop up delegates in under-the-radar state conventions.

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