The 5-Minute Fix: GOP nominee Paul Ryan is the rumor that won't go away

The next step: All hell breaks loose. After the first round of voting where no one wins, there will be another round of voting, at which point some of the pledged delegates could be legally released from voting for the candidate they came to cast a ballot for (different states have different rules on that). There's a ton of lobbying, deal-cutting and likely political intrigue as campaigns try to rally a majority of delegates around them — or a dark horse. (See one Ryan, Paul above).

The next, next step: Repeat above until someone gets a majority of the delegates. In a majority of past contested conventions, the winner has NOT been the guy who walked in with the most delegates. Historical precedent in such a situation is bad news for Trump, who's leading the delegate count right now. But it's been a long time since we've had a contested convention.

Democrats just dodged an (electoral map) bullet

The Supreme Court and pretty flowers. (AFP/Getty Images)

Have you ever stopped to think about how our politicians' districts get drawn? Gerrymandering to make a district lean one way or the other politically is a major factor, yes. But even before that — how do you count the number of people in, say, a congressional district? Should it be by all the people living there? By only eligible voters (U.S citizens 18 and older, for example?)

Most states have been doing it based on population for years now. But this year, the Supreme Court heard a case that could have upended the entire process. A conservative voting rights group sued the state of Texas saying only the citizen, voting-age population should be used to draw districts.

Sounds boring, but it has serious political implications. There tends to be more eligible voters in areas that lean Republican — say whiter, rural areas or suburbs — than Democratic urban cores. So such a recounting of what "one person, one vote" means would have upended many of our country's congressional and state electoral districts in Republicans' favor.

The Supreme Court basically decided Monday to keep the status quo, meaning there will be no mass redrawing of electoral battle lines to favor Republicans. Democratic politicians across the country breathed a sigh of relief.

We at The Fix, however, won't breathe a sigh of relief until this campaign is over! So keep up-to-date on the latest twists and turns with us, here and below. We'll see you late, late Tuesday with Fix Boss Chris Cillizza's pick of winners and losers from the Wisconsin Republican and Democratic primaries.

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