CNN CNN Newsroom Live December 15, 2015 07:35:00
Get messy, and here's how. let's say you go into the early primaries and caucuses and nobody has a commanding lead anywhere, maybe candidate a wins over here and candidate b over there, and maybe candidate c over here. enough so that two or three or four candidates all think they still can keep playing this game, and then go state after state and it continues, and then you wind up at the convention, itself, with no one in a commanding lead. already you have what's called a contested convention. and then if you get through the first vote there, and nobody gets more than 50%, now you have a brok...