Will the Republican Nomination Battle Go to the Conventions

[Fuzzy Bear]

There are too few truly uncommitted delegates to either party's convention for this to happen.  If it looked like this MIGHT happen, any number of pols along the way would switch to the person whose path looked the brightest in order to play kingmaker. 

No political party wants their dirty linen aired in their national conventions.  This was disastrous in 1968 and 1972 for the Democrats, and in 1976 for the GOP.  To a lesser degree, the 1992 convention was a disaster for the GOP because Pat Buchanan's speech raised cultural issues that the GOP was on the wrong side of in a number of Northern states they had been carrying since 1968.  This scenario won't happen because it is in the interest of all the players in the GOP for it NOT to happen.