President! I wonder if we will hear these words from the old bag in the coming months? It would be nice to be reassured that our system of government isn't completely broken.

Although elections are an important part of this process, one must always remember that the ones that actually run the government are non-elected civil servants that are only partially controllable by the people we elect.

Congress passes legislation and the president enforces it but the tools of that enforcement are in the hands of the bureaucrats. The elected officials are here briefly but the “real” government is eternal.

Whether your guy gets picked or not it will be business as usual on most of the major issues. He or she may find something to focus on but by and large things will not change. A Wall? Unlikely. Deportation of all immigrants? Illegal and economically devastating. Free college for all? Nothing but talk.

Look for Trump to moderate his message after the nomination when he needs moderate votes. Hillary will become more centralist as well and if elected will pursue her personal "Clinton" agenda that have little to do with running the country.

Regardless of political affiliation, one must admit that we are poorly served.

Byron

Hell, as I foresee it.

I think Romney took off on Trump to try and keep him from getting the necessary delagates to insure his nomination at the Republican convention. I believe he may come in as a white knight in a contested convention to receive the nomination to run. If so I think he can defeat Clinton. When he ran aganist Obama he had to dance around around him to prevent being labeled a raceist. Not so with Clinton. If he tabs Kasich as VP he may insure Ohio's electoral votes.

Maybe I am only dreaming. I am not even sure how a contested convention works.

As I understand it, CJM is correct, the national party and states have different rules for delegates and I believe the state rules take precedent in a contested convention. That being said, it will be very interesting to see what happens since there are several candidates with suspended campaigns holding onto their delegates so far. Per the rules, some of those will be automatically released and cannot be obligated to vote as their candidate wishes. There will be a fair amount of deal making going on among the candidates prior to the convention regarding those delegates and if they will be released, committed to another candidate, or held onto.

If Trump or Cruz do not achieve a majority before the convention, but do maintain sufficient lead to hold off the others, it will be most interesting. If the party decided to do something really underhanded, I could see Cruz and Trump joining forces and forcing the issue with an overwhelming number of delegates. Could be a real wild time in Cleveland, not to mention I am sure the progressives will be out in force protesting the whole thing. Cleveland is home to a couple districts that experienced voting irregularities in the last couple presidential elections, such as having more votes than registered voters and vote counts of 100% for the Democrats with no one else receiving even a single vote.