Former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour, who’s certainly endured his share of controversy in recent months but is still viewed as the wise man of the Republican Party, says somebody else could still run for the presidential nomination.
It’s still reasonable, he told The Washington Post, to think another candidate might yet get in the GOP presidential race.
“If the Republican primary voters continue to split up their votes in such a way that nobody is close to having a majority, then there is a chance that somebody else might get in,” Barbour, the former Republican National Committee chairman, told ABC News.
Barbour said that such a scenario is unlikely, but that it’s increasingly possible.
Meanwhile, Karl Rove says talk of a brokered convention is a joke.
“The odds are greater that there’s life on Pluto than that the GOP has a brokered convention. And while there’s a better chance of a contested convention, it’s still highly unlikely,” Rove wrote in his Wall Street Journal column. 
“Consider the calendar and the math. After Super Tuesday on March 6, a new candidate could still file for the Nebraska beauty contest, the Minnesota caucuses, and the primaries in New Mexico, California, Utah, South Dakota, New Jersey and Texas. Those eight contests have 519 delegates at stake: 238 awarded winner-take-all, 241 split proportionally and 40 unpledged.
“If a new candidate gets all the winner-takes-all delegates (unlikely since 222 in California and New Jersey are awarded by congressional district, not statewide), plus half those awarded proportionally, he still would have just 378 delegates of the 1,144 needed for nomination.
“At least two current candidates are likely to have far more. Why would they step aside for a newcomer? Meanwhile, a brokered convention needs party bosses, and today there aren’t any.”

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