The Democratic National Convention 2016 [View all]
The convention will be held July 25-28 in the historic city of Philadelphia, which will no doubt provide an incredible atmosphere for our historic election! http://www.phldnc.com
If by the New York primary, we were to lock up the nomination, it gives us about a 90 day spread between the delegate threshold and the beginning of the convention. By contrast, then Senator Obama soundly beat then Senator Hillary Clinton in the North Carolina primary on May 6th. The North Carolina primary was largely seen as Hillary's last stand, in terms of momentum, it was. The 2008 Democratic National Convention was held on August 25-28 in Denver, Colorado. There was a spread of about 110 days between the two dates.
*However, Hillary and Barack were much, much closer in delegates in 2008. So in theory, I think everyone will agree that last night was the May 6th of 2008, if you will. This puts us in an interesting predicament, Hillary will absolutely be the nominee, the math provides no scenario based in reality for Senator Sanders to win the nomination.
Turning our attention to the general and getting to work on electing as many democrats as possible this November, is imperative. I'm not necessarily in favor of calling for Sander's to get out, that being said if he's going to stay in, he needs to revamp his message to benefit the down ballot. If we run this until June, we will have approximate 40 days between the last primary and the start of the Convention, 70 days less than President Obama had.
We take the Senate.
We advise and consent on the appointments of the Judiciary.
We challenge the constitutionality of gerrymandered congressional districts.
We the People elect our members of Congress as the Constitution intended to.
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