What’s a Party Convention?: U.S. Elections Explained

This brokered convention can most likely happen to Democrats, but not Republicans, since their party has a proportional representation system—meaning that the percentage of votes they receive will equal the percentage of delegate seats they receive. This is the pivotal point in the run for Best Picture, when the main characters (or super delegates) cast their votes for their candidate, even if it is customary for those candidates who lost during the primaries to urge their delegates to vote for the convention’s nominee.

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This year’s front-runners, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, are currently neck-and-neck, but with the amount of delegates available, it is mathematically impossible for either candidate to move ahead. If this continues, it will become a race for the super delegates to decide, since the Democratic National Committee prevents state Democratic parties from doing what would be the most logical next step—whoever gets the most votes wins.

This will leave it to the final moments of the convention, as the balloons hover and the attendees bite their lips, to see which candidate will take the envelope, and the nomination, which will easily make for the perfect Hollywood ending to this otherwise political affair.