Super Tuesday Tomorrow

We're down to 5 candidates now, and it looks like it will come down to Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden. Elizabeth Warren though has indicated she'll stay in it through the Democratic National Convention in July. But by Tuesday night or Wednesday morning we should know who the candidate will be.

 

The downside to early voting is when your state primary comes around and you've already voted and that candidate has dropped out
Super Tuesday is just Tuesday to me now

 

Massachusetts (Warren's home state) and Minnesota (Klobuchar's home state) both vote tomorrow. If they both lose their home state primaries to Sanders - which is what the polls show will happen - then both should end their campaigns on Wednesday morning. If you can't even finish first in your home state primary, then it's time to quit wasting your time and someone else's money.

 

Warren is banking on a brokered convention. But hanging in until May will be tough for her. July is a dream at best. It seems like she plans to throw good campaign donations after bad.

 

Now Amy Klobuchar's gone so we're down to four, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bloomberg. Realistically it's between Biden and Sanders.

 

You need a root and branch reform of your voting system in the first place - get rid of voting college in the first place, make every vote for a particular candidate count.

 

I Voted and have the sticker to show it. They pass out stickers after you submit your ballot.

There were no counting machines in my polling place! The ballots are just going into a special case. Usually there's a machine. I guess they don't want any errors...

 

Good for you !!! - now you have to persuade enough people of your persuasion to actually implement it - good luck with that - although not in the us, you have my full support.

 

When a candy date who has won deli gates drops out , what happens to those DNC convention votes ?

 

I presume the Delegates are free to choose another candidate to support.

 

an excellent question... Probably they lower the threshold for ultimate nominee by that amount. That'd be fair. But who knows what convoluted practice is actually in place...

 

Varies by state .
Options : such delegates might be released to vote as they wish , or will be required to commit to the state winner , or will vote their
original commitment , or will bake the cookies for the big party .

 

Garbage in
Garbage out

 

I think Biden has it. The delegates from klobuhchar (7) and Buttigieg (26) go to Biden whose already been trailing Sanders.
With Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg dropping out, what happens to their delegates?

 

Is there a real reason the primaries are stretched out over 4-5 months while the general election is a single day? For some of the statess that vote in like may and june its like their votes don't really mater. Unless you live in Iowa or NH chances are you candidate is out of the race before you get to vote. Would it through our democracy into a tailspin if the primaries were 1 day like the general election is? I don't understand our process

 

Of course, this is a reflection of our fetish with federalism (which doesn't mean centralized government, just the opposite) and individualism. The Founding Fathers, in their infinite wisdom, left much of the process of national elections to the states, which do their own thing. They didn't allow for the influence of political parties in the process which is major. New Hampshire law requires its primary to be held before that of any other state, and gets away with it. Since it uses the caucus instead of a primary election, Iowa manages to get around that. The priority of the first four--Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina , is protected by DNC rules, which, of course, could be easily changed--for Democrats. Some states aren't holding Republican primaries this year so that Trump can run unopposed.

 

At the moment Biden has won 8 states today, Sanders 3, with 3 states too close to call. Warren and Bloomberg have won none while Tulsi Gabbard is barely a blip on the radar.