CNN Anderson Cooper 360 March 13, 2013 05:07:00
Experience, which, most of the time, is eaten up by the choreography of ballots. each cardinal steps up individually and deposits his ballot. that happens 115 times. soup to nuts, each ballot takes about an hour, hour and a half. if you take two in the morning and two in the afternoon, that's pretty much your day: so the politics of this process don't unfold in the sisteen chapel. it's going to unfold where the cardinals are staying. breakfast, lunch, dinner, during the down time, that's when they will have conversations about who seems to have legs as a candidate, forming potential alliances,...