Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: This shouldn't have to be said: A contested convention will doom us. [View all]First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...decree is the rightful winner. (You have heard of the Democratic Party?) If some candidate--we'll mention no names--goes into the convention with, say, 35% of the delegates...Candidate #2 has 30%...and the others have the remaining 35% spread out among them...and the rules that Candidate #1 agreed to, should nominate somebody else...well, he and his supporters could certainly go off into a corner and sulk, or support Jill Stein, or do whatever they wish. I would throw them a bon voyage party, wish them well, and go and work for the Democratic nominee. And if Candidate #1 should manage to get the 16% he'd need to win the nomination for himself, then I'd work my ass off for him. May I add that this whole bit about a "brokered convention" turning people off is media horseshit, the talking head class reaching for the fainting couches at the thought of dreadful, smelly, ungenteel democracy breaking out. The only people who'd give a damn about it by November would be die hard supporters of a losing candidate, and we'll win without them, should it turn out that way...
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden