If you think your fireworks were explosive on the 4th, just wait until the end of the month.
Both the Republican and Democrat National Convention take place during the last weeks of July.
The RNC convenes in Cleveland July18-21. The DNC convenes a week later, July 25-28, in Philadelphia.
Given the rhetoric of the state primary battles, the conventions should be a riot, but one hopes not literally.
The duty of every nominating convention is to officially nominate the party's candidate for the next president, who chooses his vice president, and to approve the party's platform and rules.
To become the official Republican presidential nomination in 2016, a candidate must win 1,237 plus one of the total 2,472 delegates expected at the RNC. Each state has 10 at-large delegates, another three per congressional district, and additional statewide delegates based on how well they have done in state elections.
To win the Democrat nomination, a candidate must have 2,382 delegates of the total 4,763 sent to the DNC.
Delegate numbers include primary winners, caucus appointees, and the 712 so-called super-delegates. Super-delegates, who are members of the DNC, governors, U.S. senators and representatives, past U.S. presidents and vice presidents, and past congressional leaders, can support anyone, regardless of their primary or caucus results.
Candidates who won significant primary election delegates will have a strong sway on uniting party-member support of the official candidate, perhaps after first seeking some compromises.
The conventions may erupt in a patriotic show of unified enthusiasm for their candidates or present spectacle of reluctant sparkler-waving after achieving consensus, if not unity. – 102.txt
