Mainstream-media cover-up that all delegates of GOP-primaries are actually unbound.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/6-ways-trump-may-lose-nomination-blowing-biggest-negotiation-his-life

Just a week ago, Trump's team was sayng whoever won the most delegates—even if it's short of the 1,237 needed—should be the nominee. But according to Curly Haugland, a Republican National Committee member from North Dakota and a longtime Republican National Convention Rules Committee member, who was just reappointed to that role for 2016, Trump’s team, like many national political reporters covering the race, doesn’t know the process or is intentionally distorting it.

“Most people in this discussion are talking and not referring to any specific facts,” said Haugland. “I’m not trying to spin it one way or the other. It might play in somebody’s favor or at somebody else’s expense… There’s no such thing as 2016 candidates releasing delegates. That’s the whole point. Nobody (national convention delegates) is bound in the first place… Nobody owns anything. They didn’t win trove of delegates. If anything, you’ve won bragging rights.”

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1. Experts don’t know the rules or are distorting them. “People are talking without reading. Either that or they are deliberately misleading—one or the other,” said Haugland. “When people start reading the rules correctly, they understand that each convention adopts its own rules before they start. They start with the convention rules from 2012 as a temporary rule, and then we work from there.”

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2. The delegates are not bound to any candidate. “The rules in 1976 bound the delegates to the results of the primary votes. It wasn’t for the first or second result, it was for however many ballots it took,” he said. “In that case, it was only one ballot anyway because there were only two contenders… In 1980, that rule was immediately rescinded. That’s the important part. You have to look at it as if there’s an on-off switch on binding. The switch was on for one convention in the history of the Republican Party; that was 1976. The switch is currently in the off position. There is no binding.”

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3. The mainstream media is getting this wrong—because they don’t want upset voters. The mainstream media and many scholars are reluctant to say this, Haugland said, because it would mean that the primaries and caucuses were advisory, not official in a legally binding way.

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"We have no duty or obligation to do anything according to those votes.” Haugland quickly added that the convention Rules Committee could adopt rules acknowledging primary and caucus season votes and delegates. In fact, he said he planned to propose something along those very lines—which may or may not be adopted by the 2016 convention Rules Committee.

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4. The Republican National Committee doesn’t dictate the Republican Convention’s rules. No matter what is in mainstream media, nobody else establishes the convention rules, he said. That includes the Washington-based Republican National Committee, which also has a rules committee—but it isn’t the same as the convention rules panel, Haugland said. Moreover, the RNC can’t do anything to change what will unfold at the convention other than lobby what that they want enacted.

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“The 2016 convention would have to adopt a rule if they want to do any binding—like I said, turn the switch on—and impose binding,” he said. “The likelihood of that is nil in my view, because that would mean that those delegates are going to have to sit there in Cleveland and make a conscious decision to say, ‘You know, I don’t think I’m smart enough to make this decision. I think I’ll let the independents and Democrats from New Hampshire do it for me.’ Or the other 20 open primary states, like Wisconsin. Open primary state—why should we care what the primary voters in an open primary have to say, when we’re the Republican Party?”








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But why?
Why would the media hype a fight and the outcome of that fight if the actual outcome is largely irrelevant?
It's almost as if the media is ginning up drama for the ratings...