re: #312 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Bernie is leading in all the polls, and will continue to do so until the field consolidates, by which time he may be too far in the lead in delegates to catch.

Unless he wins enough delegates to take the nomination outright, then I suspect there will be some backroom horse-trading long before the convention to release delegates to support whoever is next-closest on the first ballot. The only reason Bernie refuses to back off “plurality” is because he has to know, between releasing delegates and superdelegates, that there’s no chance he can win the nomination in any way but outright.