re: #146 NO SMOCKING GUN!

This morning, with 50% of the vote counted, Mayor Pete is clinging to 15% to qualify for Nv delegates. This is how a candidate could get enough delegates to win the nomination. Other candidates splintering the vote so much few of them qualify for delegates, allowing the winner to get over half. I know many of you think the worst out come would be nominating Sanders. I think the worst outcome would be a convention battle that leaves the party divided. We need to unify the anti-Trump vote behind the nominee. If we do that, we win.

If a candidate gets over 50% of pledged delegates on the first round, they win. Then the rest of the Democrats suck it up and get she/he over the finish line.

If not, there is a “contested convention”; those are the rules as agreed. There is a concentrated effort right now to make this sound like the end of the world, and splinter the party beyond repair. This is the same campaign that was trying to deny the holder of the majority (not plurality) of delegates the nomination in 2016, so I’m not exactly convinced of their sincerity.

I don’t even get the logic of this. How would a plurality delegate holder unite the party over someone who had to get a majority of delegates? How would someone who couldn’t get over 50% of the democratically-elected delegates of the first ballot a uniter over someone who could pull together 50% after making enough agreements to satisfy enough of the others to pull through?