2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Would you vote for a Clinton/Sanders ticket [View all]Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)I'm technically a party member...but that's because I flipped my registration to vote for Bernie in my state's closed primary. I've voted, but we don't announce the results until next week (Oregon is 100% vote-by-mail with automatic registration). Once that happens, I'll almost certainly flip back to Independent. I'm far too much of a political leftist for the current party leadership, which I consider center-right.
If Hillary has the lead (and it's a reasonably significant one), and remains unindicted at convention time, then I think the party is stuck with nominating her (even though Bernie is almost certainly the stronger candidate against the vulgar talking yam). Overturning the precedent of SDs falling in with the pledged delegate winner without a better reason is risky. If it's a narrow pledged delegate victory, then I can see the SDs going with the stronger candidate (and certainly if Hillary is under indictment and stays in the race anyway).