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If Biden enters the race, can he win the nomination without ever having received a single popular vote?

Nope. There are only 738 super delegates. The DEM race is to 2382.

(And it's nice posting politely with you on a non-Trump v Cruz thread, LOL)

21 posted on 02/10/2016 7:49:34 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)

Ha. For sure. Cruz is actually my 2. I’d like to see him on the SCOTUS.

Thanks for the answer. Poor Bernie kids! All that work and all those votes and they don’t matter.

OK, it seems like you know what you're talking about so I'll ask you -

What happens to delegates when a candidate drops out? Can he/she endorse another candidate and have the delegates automatically drop into their tally?

Seems I remember an instance where one delegate refused to vote for the candidate that clearly won her precinct (it was Bush, and I don't know how it turned out). Delegates must have the ability to change their votes at the convention if it's deadlocked, right?

Just imagine if Clinton drops out, Biden jumps in, and suddenly he has all of Clinton's delegates. Possible? Kinda makes state primaries pretty useless...