In all seriousness if there's a brokered convention I say that we just flip a coin

[Hippo_Tron]

No matter what elaborate scheme we come up with to decide who deserves the nomination more or who is more electable, somebody is going to have a problem with it and we will have a fractured party come November.

Which is why I say that we just flip a coin. 50% chance for Clinton 50% chance for Obama. It may be completely arbitrary but it's also fair.

[fenriswolf]

1. good way to instill a sense of security in the nomination

almost as good as letting the supreme court decide.

so would we let the coin fall where it lies or is it catch it and slam it on the back of your hand?

[Hippo_Tron]

2. I don't really care either way

[fenriswolf]

4. yeah i was kinda trying to point out

that, that plan is ludicrous.

[Hippo_Tron]

7. I know

[MercutioATC]

3. Of course, we COULD just use popular vote counts...

...if the current system doesn't produce a clear choice, why not go with the will of the people?

[fenriswolf]

6. that i like

[Hippo_Tron]

9. Clinton people would argue that caucuses disenfranchise their voters and so it's unfair

[gateley]

5. In a brokered convention do they (and who ARE 'they'?) choose one of the

current candidates, or bring in a new player?

Thanks! :hi:

[tammywammy]

8. Can it be a big fancy coin like they use in the NFL?

[frazzled]

10. Hillary won in a coin toss in the Nebraska caucuses (honest!)

RED CLOUD — A coin toss — yes, a coin toss — decided what may have been the state's closest caucus.

Webster County Democrats were split into five precincts but met in a single location at Red Cloud.

Two precincts favored Hillary Clinton and two backed Barack Obama. In the fifth, 15 caucusgoers chose Clinton and 15 chose Obama.

County party officials, unsure how to award the precinct's final and decisive county party convention delegate, dug into caucus rules to resolve the deadlock.

Which is how Chuck Blackstone, the county chairman, came to toss a quarter into the air in front of 102 party faithful.

Heads for Hillary, tails for Barack.

Hillary it was.

Coin tosses are, frankly, used frequently to decide deadlocked contests. Google it.

[Hippo_Tron]

11. Makes sense to me

[frazzled]

14. Except maybe when the coin-toss winner turns out to be dead (true story!)

Sad, but true--from the 2006 elections in Alaska, via MSNBC/Reuters:

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A dead woman won re-election to a school board in rural Alaska after her opponent lost a coin flip meant to break an electoral tie.

Katherine Dunton, who died of cancer on Oct. 3, the day of the local election, was re-elected to the Aleutian Region School District board after her opponent, Dona Highstone, called "heads" on a coin toss that landed "tails," state and local officials said.

"This is the first that I have ever heard about, not only in our state but in any other," said Whitney Brewster, director of the Alaska Division of Elections.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15489757/

[msongs]

12. Al Gore nt

[Bluebear]

13. John Edwards. nt