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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
It's playing out like House of Cards. "What? Underwood? How is he still in the game, no one likes him?"
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I think he's run it brilliantly. He was always a long-shot, but his odds have done nothing but increase. The Frank Underwood comparison is really apt; I mean, he got the convention in his home state, he had his state party change their primary rules to winner take all, he had them change to a 'slate' system so that if he does win, he gets to hand-pick all his delegates.
And he's run an extremely bare-bones, localized operation. Most of the states he's done well in are adjacent to Ohio, in part because he can get his campaign workers and volunteers to go to those places to knock on doors, rather than needing to build an operation in those states. He's basically run the opposite approach to Rubio who went all-in on a national campaign approach. The question to me is whether he can win enough that the party would consider him for president, or just VP.
I think in a contested convention, either Cruz or Trump would probably accept the party making them pick Kasich as VP (as long as they could do it in such a way that they could make it look like their pick).