How does the democratic national convention actually nominate a candidate?

February 28th, 2010 | by admin |

What I’m curious about is this: Say things continue in the same vein, and thus at the convention, both Obama and Clinton have … 30-40% of the delegates each, and Edwards has 20ish %. So no one has the requisite 2025 delegates to be nominated. What process then ensues? Do candidates try to get delegates to cross over to vote for them? Can a candidate such as Edwards broker a deal where he is the VP candidate in exchange for his delegates voting for the ticket? How does it work?

That situation allows a lesser voted candidate to broker their votes for whichever candidate they can get the most concessions from, or which ever is closest to their position.

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  2. By Ontheotherhand on Feb 28, 2010 | Reply

    That situation allows a lesser voted candidate to broker their votes for whichever candidate they can get the most concessions from, or which ever is closest to their position.
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