Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Open convention

In the 2016 election Clinton receive the majority of super delegates. According to NBC News’ latest count 4/11/2016, Clinton leads Sanders in superdelegates, 460-38. These are the establishment party regulars. This has changed and super delegates are no longer allowed to vote on the first ballot. Key words, first ballot. If the party insiders want to wield their power they need only make sure that no one is elected on the first ballot which means an open convention. Many experts predict this will happen and thus give the insiders the control to pick the candidate. This is a long shot since there has not been a brokered convention since Stevenson. The question is do they know who they want.

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