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Jim Lane

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6. Unfortunately, that's not true.
Sun Jun 7, 2015, 08:29 PM
Jun 2015

He gets one vote, just as the rest of us do, in his state's primary or caucus to select pledged delegates to the Convention.

In addition, however, he himself is automatically a voting Convention delegate by virtue of being an incumbent Governor. The Democratic Party's rules for superdelegates mean that Malloy has far more voting power in the selection of the nominee than do any of us peons.

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