With the Iowa caucuses in the books and the New Hampshire primary happening Tuesday, the race to rack up delegates in the Democratic presidential nomination contest is on.
With the Iowa caucuses in the books and the New Hampshire primary happening Tuesday, the race to rack up delegates in the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination is on.
Convention delegates are chosen based on voter preferences in the primaries and caucuses held in each state or U.S. territory. The process sounds fairly simple: Delegates are chosen by the voters, and the candidate with the most delegates wins. But this year's race is turning out to be anything but simple. Here's how the Democratic delegate selection process will work:That depends. If a candidate gets to July's Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee with a simple majority of the pledged delegates, or at least 1,990 of the total of 3,979, that candidate is the nominee. Game over.This is when the superdelegates start to matter.
Then the delegates vote. The superdelegates are barred from the first vote. If that first vote doesn't produce a clear winner, the superdelegates are then allowed to vote, presumably to prevent a stalemate.If that happens, expect plenty of behind-the-scenes deal-making as support shifts among the delegates pledged to candidates that no longer seem viable. Or the convention could settle on a compromise candidate who didn't even come close on the first round.
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