Quote Originally Posted by Harlan Huckleby
Quote Originally Posted by BallHawk
The idea was that if a candidate had the highest amount of pledged delegates among all of the other candidates but not enough pledged delegates to obtain the nomination (in this case 2,025) Super Delegates were supposed to wait until after all the votes were cast and then throw their support behind the leading candidate, thus avoiding a brokered convention.
I think this is blarney. Show me a source.
Chuck Todd, NBC's senior political director, was talking about it today on Meet the Press.