# What if no Repulbican Front runner ever emerges

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-no-repulbican-front-runner-ever-emerges/725426>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [July 17, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-no-repulbican-front-runner-ever-emerges/725426 "2015-07-17T16:56:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 12

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-no-repulbican-front-runner-ever-emerges/725426/12 "2015-07-17T23:00:04Z")

</div>

> [@Buck\_Godot](#):
>
> Also is there any chance that this will actually happen, or will consolidation inevitably occur with second tier candidates eventually dropping out?

Conventions today are totally scripted infomercials. That’s all they are. They exist to provide a national coronation of the pre-determined candidate. A brokered convention would be a sign that the party has died. Literally died. Dead and gone, with a new party needing to form.

So, no chance. Zero.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-no-repulbican-front-runner-ever-emerges/725426)._