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>> and so how can you win if you don't get a majority? you have to have a majority? >> well, rounds off voting. it does not stop after the first round, so if no one has the majority in the first round coming into this thing, and if you don't have the 1,144, then you are negotiating like heck between now and the convention to get as close as you can, and you will have to suffer through -- >> and in terminology, you have to get the number? >> suffer through the first round with the low number and having negotiated to the number, you get it to the second or the third round. >> and it is very hard...

>> and under the party rules can a candidate like newt gingrich who comes in third or a candidate like ron paul in the first ballot give their delegate his or her delegates to the front-runner, can they do that? >> no, because the delegates in the first wave is some 1,700, maybe 1,100 are bound delegates, and bound to the folks coming into the convention to that first ballot, and you can't come in and say, here are mine. that is a later stage in the process. >> what would happen if he tried? >> oh, you can't. i mean the rules just don't permit it. you can't do it. those delegates are bound. yo...

Blood flow away from his campaign and put that energy back into it. >> and under the party rules can a candidate like newt gingrich who comes in third or a candidate like ron paul in the first ballot give their delegate his or her delegates to the front-runner, can they do that? >> no, because the delegates in the first wave is some 1,700, maybe 1,100 are bound delegates, and bound to the folks coming into the convention to that first ballot, and you can't come in and say, here are mine. that is a later stage in the process. >> what would happen if he tried? >> oh, you can't. i mean the rules ...

You have to have a majority? >> well, rounds off voting. it does not stop after the first round, so if no one has the majority in the first round coming into this thing, and if you don't have the 1,144, then you are negotiating like heck between now and the convention to get as close as you can, and you will have to suffer through -- >> and in terminology, you have to get the number? >> suffer through the first round with the low number p and having negotiated to the number, you get it to the second or the third round. and it is very hard, and michael, you are the expert on mitt romney winning...