especially since Huckabee's an economic populist, and Romney's anything but.So I guess the easiest way to get a brokered convention is to have a stronger challenger enter the race. Huckabee or Palin might be able to do the trick.
especially since Huckabee's an economic populist, and Romney's anything but.
Huckabee running is a possibility. The question is though, might Huckabee do well enough to secure a majority, especially since he's a stronger anti-Romney. Huckabee vs Romney could work. Santroum doing better, winning Michigan and keeping the race going might work too. Could Paul Ryan, or even John Kasich, get nominated at a brokered convention?
I tend to think that Romney had a strong enough base of support (for instance, from what I recall his support hardly budged during the various Bachmann/Perry/Cain/Gingrich/Santorum surges) to prevent it from being an easy victory for a stronger anti-Romney candidate.
I think 2012 is too early for Paul or Kasich, even in terms of winning a brokered convention. If it is a brokered convention and somebody gets drafted (which I think is unlikely to begin with - I think Romney would still manage to win even in a contested convention), I could see the party drafting (or at least trying to draft) Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie, or even Jeb Bush, who could have an advantage in terms of the fact that the convention would be in Florida.