The Great Pundit Hope: A Deadlocked Convention

The Santorum Surge is, plainly, grand news for pundits desperately in search of new ways of spinning out the low drama and even lower comedy of this year’s Great Presidential Handicap. Nothing, equally plainly, could be better than a race that stretches into June. Nothing, that is, save a deadlocked convention this summer and all the fun and chaos that would ensue from that. Can Mitt Romney actually win the 1,144 delegates he needs to secure the nomination?

The Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein has his doubts, reckoning that, should matters continue as they are, Romney could still come up short. That’s based, in part, on the fact that many states this year will award their delegates on a proportional basis. And, yet, the qualification – should the race continue much as it has gone thus far – is vital. I think it most improbable that it will. But, for the sake of argument, let one assume it will.