Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Brokered Convention's Not Going to Happen

Aiming for a state or two hasn’t been a winning strategy since before 1972.

January 23, 2015 at 8:29 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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Can we please stop this nonsense before it gets started? The Fix’s Chris Cizzilla looks at the Republican presidential field and breaks out the hackiest of clichés:

First of all, the thing that’s not going to happen is a deadlocked convention, not a “brokered” convention. There are no brokers.