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Originally Posted by srmom
That may be true, but I can't see the delegates so willfully disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of people nationwide who voted in the primaries. McCain won the majority of the votes, that's it. Ron Paul only got around 7% or so in each state - so it is kind of delusional to think/hope that the delegates would give him the nomination 
The delegates are sent to the convention as representatives of the voters, supposedly they have some moral compass that would keep them from just getting together and saying, "to he** with what the voters want, we'll just pick whoever we want." |
Particularly when things have ended up as decisive for McCain with GOP voters as they have, and he's polling as well against the Democratic candidates as he is.
It's not that I think he will necessarily win the general, but he won't end up with the GOP equivalent of of Mondale and Dukakis results, I don't think.