Pledged Delegates at the Democratic Convention Can Indeed Change Their Votes

[MineralMan]

Someone posted that earlier today, and it's true.

One of the situations where that can happen and has happened is when the second place candidate concedes and calls for the nomination of the winner by acclamation. That happened in 2008, when Hillary Clinton made that motion herself. Following that, Barack Obama was, indeed, nominated by acclamation.

A similar thing is very, very likely to happen at the 2016 convention. If Bernie Sanders is smart, and I think he is, he will follow Hillary Clinton's 2008 lead and call for her nomination by acclamation from the floor. He is a super delegate, you know, and can get the floor to make that motion.

He has pledged to "do everything he can" to prevent Donald Trump from getting elected. At the convention, he can honor that pledge by ending the competition and calling for an acclamation vote for Clinton.
Watch for him to do that. I expect it.

Unanimous nomination of Hillary Clinton is very likely at the 2016 Democratic Nominating Convention. It can happen as described above, and the pledged delegates change their vote on the first ballot.

[tonyt53]

1. His ego won't let him.

[MineralMan]

2. I think you are wrong about that.

There's plenty of time for Bernie to think about this between the last primary on June 14 and the beginning of the convention in late July. I believe he will come to that decision fairly soon after the last primary.

You may think otherwise, and that's fine. We'll find out, though, won't we?

[Skink]

3. How about something new and different

[MineralMan]

7. Go right ahead and post whatever you wish.

You can create original posts, too.

[Garrett78]

4. And since delegates, pledged or super, can switch, 2383 is 2383.

People argue that Clinton can't be considered the nominee without reaching 2383 via pledged delegates alone, on the basis that superdelegates can switch. Well, pledged delegates can also switch. Of course nothing is official until the convention (thus we have the term "presumed nominee&quot , but the 2383 argument is lacking consistency.

[geek tragedy]

5. we should know by the end of June 8 whether his statement to do whatever it takes to defeat

Trump was sincere or not.

Hope he's honest.

[MineralMan]

6. I don't expect an announcement from him until the DC

primary has been held. Get all the votes in all of the jurisdictions first. Then, give him a day or a few days. He'll figure it out.

I think his pledge to work to defeat Trump is definitely sincere. He's an honest, straightforward man.

[geek tragedy]

8. if he's talking about taking it to the convention after polls close in California, he's not landing

the plane and will just have to be swept aside.

[MineralMan]

9. I think I'll wait and see what he does.

I'm not very good at predicting what individuals will do. Nobody is, really. Individuals decide for themselves. However, common sense says that he'll do what is most effective at achieving his goals.

[geek tragedy]

10. we can posit he'll be rational in achieving his goals, we don't know what

his actual goals are

[MineralMan]

11. Well, my tendency is to take people at their word.

Sometimes I'm wrong, of course, but I like Bernie, and think he's as good as his word.

[geek tragedy]

12. I dont take politicians at their word.

Bernie promised to run a positive campaign. Then he sued the DNC, accused the DNC and Clinton of violating federal banking and campaign finance law, said Hillary Clinton was unqualified for office, and tried to collect the scalps of Dan Malloy and Barney Frank.

[Maru Kitteh]

13. Several of them have switched from Sanders to Hillary lately

not the kind of switching he was hoping for but. . . .