I posted this elsewhere but didn't get a definitive answer (maybe because there isn't one)

IF John Edwards had been the democratic nominee and this affair he had came out...would he be forced to drop and if yes who would take place...would we start over or would it go to Hillary or whoever came in second?

I don't think there is a nominee until the convention. Until then he would only be the presumptive nominee, and the convention would decide by the vote of the delegates and super-delegates. Hillary seems the most likely successor. IMO.

Frank is right (as usual). The presumptive nominee becomes the nominee only if elected by the delegates at the convention. If Obama would drop out for any reason, the convention would be open, although I agree with Frank (See how smart I am?) that Hillary would then win the nomination in a walk.

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Originally posted by DorianGreyed (See how smart I am?)

You mean see how smart Frank is??

Thanks guys...What about after the convention...would it go to the VP choice?

It may be that the party is stuck with their pick. However, if the candidate dies, I think the law allows the party to select a new candidate.

I believe the DNC picks a new nominee should anything happen to the nominee.

This happened at the VP level in 1972.

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Originally posted by frankvan:
I don't think there is a nominee until the convention. Until then he would only be the presumptive nominee, and the convention would decide by the vote of the delegates and super-delegates.

Just think of all that tax money wasted on the primaries! By both parties! Why do they even go through with them when it is the convention that really decides! Save the time, money (the tax-payer's and the candidate's private money), spare us all the ads months before the real election and just do it like they use to do - at the conventions! When the hell did primaries start and why? Get rid of them, if you ask me! By what right to private parties have to use tax money to hold their unofficial elections that they will simply be redone with official results at their conventions?

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Originally posted by frankvan:
Hillary seems the most likely successor. IMO.

Do you think she still has a chance? Technically she could get it at the convention and it would all be legal and within party rules. How great would that fireworks show be?!

How about McCain chooses Hillary as his veep? What kind of ticket would that be? Obama is starting to court the evangelicals, so anything goes. I do agree that primaries are an unnecessary expense for the taxpayers and they could get just as much information from the plethora of polls we get for nothing.

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Originally posted by frankvan:
How about McCain chooses Hillary as his veep? What kind of ticket would that be?

A losing one for both.

Then again, rumor has it, that Lieberman is on McCain's short list for VP, and he is just as liberal as Hillary.

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Originally posted by frankvan:
Obama is starting to court the evangelicals, so anything goes.

Obama is an evangelical! Just listen to his words.

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Originally posted by frankvan:
I do agree that primaries are an unnecessary expense for the taxpayers and they could get just as much information from the plethora of polls we get for nothing.

If Hillary pulls it off and gets the nomination instead of Obama at the DNC Convention, perhaps it would be the beginning of the end of primaries. People would start to see they don't really count, but they sure do cost!