On this day in 1968, former VP Nixon announced that he was a candidate for president.  It came at the start of the the Tet Offensive, the battle that we won but the media reported we didn't. On this day in 2015, we get another article about a "brokered convention."  It didn't happen in 2008 or 2012, and it won't in 2016 but it is a heck of story for those of us who sleep and eat politics. According to Sean Trende, a very good pundit, the GOP field is so deep that it could happen: I think the Republican Party really could wind up with a brokered convention -- that is, a race where no candidate receives a majority of the delegates by the end of voting. In fact, it might well be the most likely outcome, if only because no particular outcome is particularly probable. It could happen, but I don't see it. First, a brokered convention will not unite the party.  It will get ugly on the floor, a bit like the Reagan-Ford...(Read Full Post)