Stop Sanders? Rival candidates try to at least slow him down
asked the candidates what they thought should happen if one of them ended the primaries with more delegates than anyone else, but not a majority.said the Democratic convention should give that candidate the nomination — clearly signaling that he expects to be in that position. The other five on stage all clearly shared his assessment of who would be in the lead: They each said the convention should follow its rules and be free to nominate someone else.
This time, the 771 superdelegates are not allowed to vote in the convention’s first roll call: They get to vote only if the delegates can’t agree on a nominee on the first ballot — something that hasn’t happened at a major party convention since 1952. Right now, polls nationally and in states soon to hold primaries consistently show Sanders in the lead, but winning somewhere between a quarter and a third of the vote., in a similar position in the Republican primaries, ended up with a majority of the delegates. But that’s because Republicans have winner-take-all contests in which a candidate who may get no more than a third of the vote in a multicandidate field can walk away with all the delegates. Democrats don’t allow that.
The combination of proportional allocation of delegates and the threshold requirement means two numbers will be crucial in each of the contests over the next few weeks: How big a victory the winner gets and how many other candidates cross the threshold for delegates.of Massachusetts will win her home state’s primary when it votes on March 3 — one of 14 states to vote that day, although a poll this week showed Sanders effectively tied with her.
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