It wasn’t all that long ago that the prospect of a contested Democratic convention was every savvy Washingtonian’s favorite topic of conversation. …
Of course, that all seems rather quaint now. Joe Biden’s remarkable resurgence, beginning with his modest second-place finish in the Nevada caucus and picking up rocket fuel the following week in South Carolina, extended through another week’s worth of elections this Tuesday night. …
What’s more, the procedural mechanism that previously made a contested Democratic convention seem so very possible—the party’s requirement that delegates must be allocated in proportion to the popular vote in individual states and congressional districts—is the same thing that will now help Biden’s campaign make the case that the race is effectively over. CONT.
David A. Hopkins (Boston College), Honest Graft