A Brokered Convention Without Brokers

Frum worries about the campaign going all the way to the convention:

A decision-making convention in modern times won't submit to the edicts of smoke-filled rooms. The delegates will want their own way. If Romney fails to win the primaries over the next few months, brace yourself: not for a replay of 1920, when Republican bosses made their coldly calculated deal, but for a replay of 1896, when the Democratic Convention went wild for William Jennings Bryan after one thrilling speech. Of course, Bryan went on to lose in a landslide.