Clintons CAN change the math by prevailing on the DNC to seat the Michigan and Florida delegations as at the convention. It is pretty much what I expect to happen in order to give a cover to the bosses’ awarding of the nomination to the Clintons.
Is it true that pledged delegates are only bound to their pledges for the first ballot? If so, then the “grand compromise” could go like this:
First ballot is not going to produce a nominee.
DNC has stuck to the rules about Florida and Michigan up until that point.
But now - after the first ballot - and pledged delegates are released, well, why not seat FL & MI delegates so that their “votes can be counted”?
Hillary Clinton is nominated on a later ballot, the riots happen, AND I NEVER LISTEN TO RUSH LIMBAUGH AGAIN.