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[quote=takoma]Now that the prospect of a contested GOP convention seems to have disappeared, is there a possibility of a contested Democratic convention?  Consider the numbers:  Clinton has 1705 committed delegates, and Sanders has 1415.  The remaining states have 923.  2383 are needed to win the nomination.  So, in order to get the nomination purely with committed delegates, Clinton would need 678 of those 923.  Because of the proportional apportionment of delegates, that means she would need about 3/4 of the votes, which is extremely unlikely.

This is not to say that she is not the prohibitive favorite, just that she will need a fair number of the 719 superdelegates to take her over the top.  But if there were to be an indictment or some other catastrophe, it is possible for those superdelegates to move away and force a second ballot, in which the committed delegates would then be freed, and move to Biden, Warren, etc.

This is not intended as a prediction, but rather as a question:  Is there something in the rules that would make this impossible, or could it actually happen if Hillary's campaign suffers a major blow?[/quote]

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