1) The candidate who comes into a contested convention with a plurality but not majority of delegates should probably get the nomination 2) They should not get it until *after* they have negotiated and compromised with enough of their opponents to get a majorityhttps://twitter.com/resisterhood/status/1233080560739848192 …
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It is, in fact, a problem for the concept of democracy that a naive democratic process says if I get 51% and you get 49% I get to say "Fuck you bend the knee" It's *much more* of a problem if I get to demand people bend the knee with 34%
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It's really not democratic. Or, rather, it's only vaguely democratic if you assume that we are meaningfully seeking to cast votes for delegates instead of, y'know, the person we're voting for. I don't care what the delegate I vote for thinks I want.
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It's more democratic than just throwing all those votes away and saying the first past the post winner wins the nomination
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That, in general, is how it works in democratic countries with coalitions of parties. No one party gets a majority, they form coalition with other parties. Not sure why that shouldn't apply here.
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