LogFAQs > #934362566

Neither is ideal! That's why a brokered convention is a guaranteed disaster! It's also why the superdelegate system was implemented in the first place in order to provide a failsafe to avoid one.

But in a 32-30-25 situation where 30+25 team up. You can very plainly argue if the voters who picked the 25% candidate wanted the candidate with 30 they would have voted for them. (Of course the simplest counter-argument is that in choosing the 25% person they're deferring to their judgment... assuming they endorse the 30% and this isn't the unbound delegates making their own decision)

But put names to these numbers:

Sanders - 32%
Biden - 30%
Buttigieg - 25%

You gonna tell me that a Sanders nomination on the basis that he had the most pledged delegates is more destructive to the party than a Biden+Buttigieg teamup? Sure you can make the argument that the moderate candidates had 55% there - I would understand your case! - but I would laugh you out of the room if you told me that that outcome is less destructive to the party then a Sanders win. If you put Biden at 32 and Sanders/Warren as the teamup then the damage and frustration would be real but I still think you go Biden there as much as I'd rather see the dream team.

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