The McCain camp was forced to fight off an insurrection on the 2008 convention floor from delegates supporting Ron Paul in what was at the time a very underreported story. It looks like the Paulites are burrowing themselves in deeply this time around, too, controlling more delegates than he “deserves” by taking advantage of the byzantine delegate-nominating process.
It’s shaping up as a big headache for Mitt Romney in Tampa. “Broadly speaking, I don’t think anyone has a firm handle on how deep this goes,” one expert on the process told us. Benjy Sarlin and Pema Levyreport.
