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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=takoma]Unfortunately, I could not get the article to come up.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but I presume it pointed out that after Tuesday HRC and BS will each have enough votes so that it is mathematically impossible for either to win without superdelegates.  That means that if something happens to make Hillary an untenable candidate, an indictment, for example, it is within the convention rules for the superdelegates to vote against her, either giving Sanders the nomination if enough vote for him, or going to a second ballot if they vote for someone else.  Once past the first ballot, all delegates are free to vote as they wish, for Sanders, O'Malley, Biden, Kerry, Warren, Klobuchar, ...

I don't claim this is at all likely as a scenario, just that it is an option for the party if the need arises -- an option that the GOP does not have.[/quote]

Your analysis would be logical, but that's not what the piece said.  It said that if Clinton loses at all in California, it might confirm to some superdelegates that she is a bad nominee (plus the email server stuff).  It doesn't necessarily say they will choose Sanders, it actually suggests Kerry or Biden might swoop in.
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I do not understand why certain part of the media is still trying push the idea that some other candidate will be nominee. At this time it is 90% sure that Clinton is the presumptive nominee and after Tuesday it would be 100% sure. Presumptive means that she would be the official during the convention, but it is equivalent to Trump being the presumptive republican nominee. I do not understand how we are still arguing about it.[/quote]
It's not even "the media" writing the story, in this case. It's a former Bill Clinton pollster who might have an angle of his own. The media are happy to publish it, because clicks = money. So that's the answer. Revenue. [/quote]

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