“Because delegates are awarded proportionally, it could mean that on Super Tuesday everybody gets a little bit of something, and again is able to claim that because there’s no one or two front-runners, they have a reason to go forward” https://t.co/nzjV15Yhs8— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) February 11, 2020
Most of the wannabes who've dropped out by now did it because donations dried up.
Delegate counts will matter less than "victories," which is why Bernie declared one in Iowa. Victories are used to get donors to donate. Third place, even if it gets you a share of delegates, is not a "victory."
As always happens, some will stop campaigning but keep their delegates for horse-trading at the convention. Happens every four years; every four years, we act like this has never happened before; well, except for who Iowa or New Hampshire votes for who happens to go on to claim the nomination. But whether that is causation or correlation, we can't be bothered to consider.
More and more I think the whole system is a mess and the kind of around the edges reforms, as much as those are needed, won't do it. It is outrageous that any one state could put itself in a position to have had such an effect for the life time of today's geezers and more. And New Hampshre. Really, New Hampshire! There should be a rotation of states and several of them should go at once or there should be a national vote by Democrats. This is too stupid to produce anything good.
ReplyDeleteAnd I know it's evil, but I'm wishing that the most elderly of the contenders would find it too much and have to drop out. All three of those.
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