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Article: Minnesota standoff: the specter of a brokered convention haunts the Republican field.(2008 II)
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- February 11, 2008
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IN The Guide for the Perplexed, the 12th-century Jewish philosopher Maimonides asked his readers to imagine a boy whose mother had died in childbirth, and who was raised on an island inhabited only by men. Such a child, Maimonides said, could easily doubt the existence of such a thing as a "woman," simply because he had never seen one. This is, more or less, how pundits have contemplated the idea of a brokered Republican convention this fall: We've never seen it happen, and so it cannot happen.
It is time to reevaluate that belief.
After his win in New Hampshire, John McCain enjoyed a sudden surge in the national polls and in several key states--not just ...