Edwards could win a brokered convention: Here's how:

[debbierlus]

Okay.

Hilliary & Obama supporters are turning into arch enemies. You see it here on this board all the time. Do you think that all of a sudden at the convention - one side is going to just turn and give their votes to the other at the very end.

What if there was another candidate you could vote for?

If the delegates can all of the sudden GIVE their votes to whoever they want (and they can - they aren't binded to go by their original votes direction...

I could see a convention where the Hilliary & or Obama supporters are so split that the losing party throws their support to Edwards. And, he would have more then enough delegates to counter the super delegate factor by that time, if he keeps obtaining 15% or more of the vote. This is the strategy the draft Gore movement was using.

Stranger things have happened.

[ursi]

1. interesting ...I am hoping to go to the convention as a delegate

this is something to think about.

[debbierlus]

2. Great year to be a delegate. I would run but it simply not practical

Good luck!

[dkf]

3. By that standard practically anyone could get it.

Maybe Gore does have a chance?

[Blackhatjack]

4. It is all about no one candidate winning on the first ballot...

... because after the first ballot many delegates are released from voting for the candidate they were elected to support.

Certainly is a possibility.

[debbierlus]

5. If it ever could happen, this would be the year

Certainly not a given, but a possibility.

[stravu9]

17. my fingers are crossed!

maybe I should start another novena!

[MonkeyFunk]

6. I love how people

root for scenarios where somebody OTHER than the candidate who got the most votes wins. Many are the same people who complain about how undemocratic the primary/caucus system is.

[frogcycle]

7. I love it too

keeps hope alive

[debbierlus]

13. Oh PLEASE. 200 million to 20. And, you want to talk fair

Give me a BREAK.

[Yael]

8. And the people at the convention are going to be the core base -- those

who don't get their information from commercials during American Idol but truly read and understand the candidate's platforms.

[stravu9]

9. I Think This Would Be The BEST WAY

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[AP]

10. Don't forget the superdelegates. He has to get enough delegates so that the superdelegates can't

play king maker.

[cali]

11. not even a remote possibility

Are you guys really this desperate and out of touch? I'm a strong Obama supporter, but I will vote for Clinton if she's the nominee. And judging the real world by DU is a HUGH mistake.

[debbierlus]

12. If that is indeed the case, we will be running out the clock

America really can't afford another four or eight years of corporate ruled POTUS.

Help us all.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

14. My folks told me about the good old days at the state convention!

Walkouts, rump conventions on the lawn (held by said delegates who walked out), fistfights on the convention floor, Dad getting bashed in the head with a handbag by some old woman.....

the good old days of the NINETEEN-FIFTIES!!!

They were delegates for a Hispanic person for Governor.

The days before apathy! :)

[RB TexLa]

15. I thought if that happened they were supposed to hand it to The Gore.

:crazy:

[dorkulon]

16. That's true... just the other day pigs flew out of my butt and made me French toast. /nt

edited for fat fingers.