As Hillary appears to be throwing the towel in Wisconsin, and making a last stand in Texax and Ohio, by one calculation, Obama and Hillary will have to win 79 and 85 percent (respectively) of the pledged delegates (earned through votes cast by voters) to win the nomination through pledged delegates alone.
Winning those percentages seems unlikely.
Any process that ignores the popular vote is anti-democratic and repulsive, but an anti-democratic process is just what we would get with a brokered convention.
Hillary Clinton, shortly after assuming office as a US Senator in 2001, called for the abolition of the Electoral College and its anti-democratic process, justifiably.
To avoid even the possibility of a brokered convention, John Edwards, though having only 26 pledged delegates, ought to endorse someone fast.
That might just supply the political juice to put one of the candidates over the top, and avoid the undemocratic spectacle of a brokered convention.
For an excellent analysis, see What Obama Has to Do to Lose the Nomination.
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