Lol why you lying, Mook? That math isn't right. Bernie has to win 56% of remaining pledged delegates. That does not mean he has to win PA, CA, NY and NJ with 60% of the vote.
And yes if Bernie leads in pledged delegates and the supers don't switch they SHOULD have a contested convention.
he needs 60% of voters to overtake Clinton in actual popular vote, though, not delegates. Delegates and popular votes are different animals. A lot of his delegate count is from extremely low turnout caucuses. Caucus turnout is something around 4%, which is ridiculously low:
Here is a Rachel Maddow clip on how Sanders could get the nomination. He needs to get more of pledged delegates than Hillary, then he could make a case to the super delegates at the convention.
If Hillary doesn't have the 2,383 delegates needed for the nomination then it's certainly within his right to contest the convention even if she's ahead.
If she does, and he still tries to flip the superdelegates though, then that's not going to be good look at all.
Why would she have needed to???? She had the majority of the superdelegates in 2008, up until the convention when they switched to Obama because he'd gotten the majority of pledged delegtes.
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And yes if Bernie leads in pledged delegates and the supers don't switch they SHOULD have a contested convention.
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http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bernie-sanders-is-even-further-behind-in-votes-than-he-is-in-delegates/
and if he honestly plans to persuade superdelegates, popular vote is going to matter.
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If she does, and he still tries to flip the superdelegates though, then that's not going to be good look at all.
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