My big fear

[samrock]

At the end of the primary season.. both Clinton and Obama are withing 25 delegates of each other.. both over 200 away from the total needed to get the nomination.. within 2% of the net total primary vote, and chaos looms with both sides dug in.. I would hope both would see the need to unite and following the examples of Kennedy/Johnson, Reagan/Bush .. form a united ticket with the top slot going to WHO EVER had the most PLEDGED delegates going into the convention.. BUT I am an idealist.. so I know THAT will never happen... What do we do in the advent of my big fear????

[griffi94]

1. nothing

watch it on cnn....gnash our teeth....wish death and destruction on the candidate that we want to lose....scream and yell......vow that we're done with the democratic party......vow to take it to the streets and overturn the injustice........get another beer.....go back to whatever we were already doing

[samrock]

2. well I like the "get another beer" part

:)

[zbartz]

3. The winner only needs 50 per cent

Edwards only has 26 delegates. Clinton or Obama should get to 50 %
The 210 delegates from Florida and the 156 delegates from Michigan
should be deducted from the 4049 total delegates to 3683 total delegates
meaning that the magic number should be 1842 instead of 2025.

There has not been much talk about lowering the number, but since Michigan
and Florida do not count, the number of delegates is lower, and the
50% needed to get the nomination should be lower.