Another possibility at the convention... Candidates combine delegates to make a ticket

[booley]

11. well thats is a common argument for the electoral college

Which I thought we didn't like. I sure remember a lot of Democrats saying the popular vote winner should win. I guess we don't' believe that after all?

But anyway there would be no deadlock. In this scenario, Sanders would clearly have more votes.

If it were just two candidates and they were close I could see it. If the runner up had gotton 47% of the ote, that is a large chunk whose views should be taken into account. And with two canidates we have less guss work on who would have been the second choice if things had worked out differently.

But we don't' have that here right now.

The central assumption is that somehow any non-Sanders vote is interchangeable with any other. That is not born out by the facts. just because someone voted for Biden for Warren or whomever, we cant' assume they wanted anybody but Sanders.

again, this would be the DNC telling its base "Your vote only matters when we say it does"

We cant' afford this kind of foolishness. Not if we want to beat Trump.