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@MyNameHere
In a race decided by party insiders, I wouldn't see that happening with two traditional candidates, especially, if one were an insurgency on the order of an Obama type challenge [matters of skin colour and gender, aside].
I may have misspoke, just a bit, with regard to the question of historical antecedent. I'm sure that you remember the candidacies of Ford and Reagan, in the '76 GOP primary race; that is the closest thing we have, in modern electoral history, to what is going on, now. Reagan was the insurgent and an ideological candidate who fought Ford down to the convention. Many people, including Ford, believe that that bitter campaign and candidacy weakened Ford's general election effort and suppressed the GOP vote enough for Carter to win in a squeaker. That, however, was a bathroom drainpipe leak compared to the tsunami that could happen in the aftermath of a brokered-or prolonged-'08 Democratic candidacy for the general election.