“As long as Joe has the black primary voter support he’s the nominee... all these other folks will hit a brick wall in SC.”
indeed. but Dem primary delegates are awarded proportionally, AND California and Texas primaries will have an out-sized impact compared to all those other little states, so really things are going to be way up in the air until those two primaries are completed ...
of course, even after those, if the top three candidates continue to split the delegates and eventually arrive at the Dem convention without a majority, and there’s no majority winner on the first ballot at the convention, then the superdelegates get to vote in all subsequent ballots and should bernie arrive at the convention with the most delegates but not a majority, and then someone else like bloomberg is awarded the nomination by the superdelegates weighing in, all hell will break loose! YEA! I vote for all hell breaking loose!
Agree. The Dems don’t have winner take all states, which make it difficult to win the 1,990 delegates before the convention. The 716 superdelegates don’t come into play until the second round. This will be the Establishment’s thumb on the scale.