I've already thought of a scenario where Bernie might retire from the field for health reasons, and endorse Warren. But then it is unlikely that Warren would pick Harris, the other excellent presidential candidate, as her running mate -- for both demographic and political reasons, trying to cover the whole field of female-male and left-moderate. It would be ideal though if the two women fronted together as a p-o-c and caucasian combo.

Wow, if tiny, under-populated Iowa is that influential won't this give Buttigieg an artificial fillip just because he's mister rosy-cheeked Midwesterner who's straight (excuse the expression) dow the middle as as a be-nice-to-rich-people moderate? When is Super Tuesday again? I'm in New Zealand and though I'm still (as far as the US Consulate in Auckland knows) a US citizen I'm not registered to vote.

@Garbonza That has been a complaint since the 1970s when the process was changed from all closed causus conventions. Direct voting in primaries is a very recent developement. Delegates are elected at princint, to district to state to national. While delegates may be bound to a particular candidate, after the first ballot at each level they may change their vote. None of this is fully binding until a vote has occured on national convention floor. I still haven't read the party rules for the upcoming convention, but if I'm going to go, i probably ought to. A link to the super tuesday info [uspresidentialelectionnews.com]