2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPledged Delegates at the Democratic Convention Can Indeed Change Their Votes
Someone posted that earlier today, and it's true.
One of the situations where that can happen and has happened is when the second place candidate concedes and calls for the nomination of the winner by acclamation. That happened in 2008, when Hillary Clinton made that motion herself. Following that, Barack Obama was, indeed, nominated by acclamation.
A similar thing is very, very likely to happen at the 2016 convention. If Bernie Sanders is smart, and I think he is, he will follow Hillary Clinton's 2008 lead and call for her nomination by acclamation from the floor. He is a super delegate, you know, and can get the floor to make that motion.
He has pledged to "do everything he can" to prevent Donald Trump from getting elected. At the convention, he can honor that pledge by ending the competition and calling for an acclamation vote for Clinton.
Watch for him to do that. I expect it.
Unanimous nomination of Hillary Clinton is very likely at the 2016 Democratic Nominating Convention. It can happen as described above, and the pledged delegates change their vote on the first ballot.
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)There's plenty of time for Bernie to think about this between the last primary on June 14 and the beginning of the convention in late July. I believe he will come to that decision fairly soon after the last primary.
You may think otherwise, and that's fine. We'll find out, though, won't we?
Skink
(10,122 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)You can create original posts, too.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)People argue that Clinton can't be considered the nominee without reaching 2383 via pledged delegates alone, on the basis that superdelegates can switch. Well, pledged delegates can also switch. Of course nothing is official until the convention (thus we have the term "presumed nominee" , but the 2383 argument is lacking consistency.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Trump was sincere or not.
Hope he's honest.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)primary has been held. Get all the votes in all of the jurisdictions first. Then, give him a day or a few days. He'll figure it out.
I think his pledge to work to defeat Trump is definitely sincere. He's an honest, straightforward man.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)the plane and will just have to be swept aside.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)I'm not very good at predicting what individuals will do. Nobody is, really. Individuals decide for themselves. However, common sense says that he'll do what is most effective at achieving his goals.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)his actual goals are
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)Sometimes I'm wrong, of course, but I like Bernie, and think he's as good as his word.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Bernie promised to run a positive campaign. Then he sued the DNC, accused the DNC and Clinton of violating federal banking and campaign finance law, said Hillary Clinton was unqualified for office, and tried to collect the scalps of Dan Malloy and Barney Frank.
Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)not the kind of switching he was hoping for but. . . .