2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Can we all agree the convention won't be brokered? What does a contested convention accomplish? [View all]Garrett78
(10,721 posts)There are only 2 candidates, one of whom will likely end up with approximately 2200 pledged delegates (needing fewer than 200 of the 700+ superdelegates to reach the magic number). Is there anyone at DU who thinks neither Clinton nor Sanders will reach 2383 via the first vote? It's really no different than thinking neither candidate will reach 2026 pledged delegates--obviously 1 of them will.
My point in mentioning "brokered" is to draw a distinction between that and "contested," and to hopefully get folks thinking about what a contested convention (with there being no chance of it leading to a brokered convention) would accomplish.
A brokered convention would be tense, dramatic, rare and quite significant. A contested convention not so much.