The delegate strategy is more important than people think.
...And there are implications. For example: the way things are going, there will be no point for either Donald Trump or John Kasich to even bother announcing who their Vice Presidential nominee will be (well, there are several good reasons why Kasich shouldn’t bother, but work with me, here). They’d just have to clear it with Ted Cruz, anyway. That’s because, when the dust clears, Donald Trump might – emphasis, might – have a working majority of delegates on the first Presidential ballot. Even in that case, he would not have a working majority of delegates for anything else.
This situation is… unusual. Typically when we get this far there’s a clear winner already, and the party’s major goal in life is to have as smooth a convention as is humanly possible. The GOP’s last brouhaha was in 1976, with neither Gerald Ford nor Ronald Reagan having a majority; the good news for Trump is that he gets to play Gerald Ford, who did end up winning after Ronald Reagan made a bad VP call. The good news for Cruz is that he gets to play Ronald Reagan – and he’s playing a Reagan who will know what will happen if he makes a bad VP call.....
http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2016/04/24/convention-delegates/
