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In response to "I hate the idea of a brokered convention. I also struggle with automatically giving the nom to someone if they have, say, 33% of the delegates" by ty97

Shocked, I am, that Bernie helped draft rules to prevent him losing like in 2016, only to find he can't win by these new rules either

Posted by TWuG Feb 27 '20, 16:24

If the nomination requires 50%+1 delegates and he can't get that on the first ballot, and loses on a subsequent ballot because a majority coalesces around someone else, that's how ranked choice works.

I'm all for ranked choice because it gets us the nominee with the broadest appeal

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Yes. But ranked choice should also be part of the primary process from the beginning. It would avoid these kind of problems. -- nm - pmb Feb 27, 16:46 1
- *ding* -- nm - znufrii Feb 27, 17:34
*ding* -- nm - mud Feb 27, 16:27

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Shocked, I am, that Bernie helped draft rules to prevent him losing like in 2016, only to find he can't win by these new rules either

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