How the Democratic nominating battle could end in a messy 'brokered convention'

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(Reuters) - Seemingly every four years, political pundits speculate about a "brokered" U.S. presidential convention - only to see a nominee selected with little or no drama. But that may not be the case in 2020.

With the field of Democratic contenders deeply fragmented ahead of the all-important Super Tuesday contests in 14 states on March 3, chances are growing that no contender will amass the majority of delegates needed to clinch the nomination outright.

PredictIt, one of the most active markets taking bets on U.S. politics, on Thursday implied a better-than-even chance that neither Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the national-front-runner, nor his rivals will secure the minimum 1,991 delegates needed to win the nomination on the first ballot at this July's convention in Milwaukee.

Failure to secure a first-ballot win could result in a "brokered convention," in which candidates and party leaders engage in horse trading to try to gain a majority of delegates on subsequent ballots.

No Republican or Democratic convention has gone beyond a single ballot since 1952.

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1. frankly I am not all that concerned

about the prospect of a "brokered" convention.

Putting aside partisan interests in preferred candidates, I think the process (if it comes about) could very well serve to produce exactly what it was designed to. A consensus (and eminently electable?) Democratic standard bearer. I can live with that.