He needs to win just over 60% of the remaining delegates in order to avoid a potential second ballot and contested convention.
These included convening congresses annually, imposing a 50% limit on the proportion of delegates who hold official rank and electing fewer delegates, in order to cut costs and encourage genuine debate (of which there is currently none).
Trump needs about 45% of the remaining delegates in order to reach 1,237, CBS estimates – a viable possibility, considering his good chances in California, the state with the most delegates.
"However, a spirit of camaraderie prevailed, with those who had access to up-to-date online versions of the texts willingly sharing with other delegates in order to keep discussions moving forward".
There is speculation, for example, that the DNC may increase the number of unpledged delegates in order to balance the predominantly white male office holders with more women and minorities.
Or maybe the race "isn't over" because the arbiters of media conventional wisdom — people, that is, like the editors of First Read — are determined to keep pretending that "style points" somehow count as much as delegates, in order to justify their continued insistence that Romney doesn't actually have this thing wrapped up.
Across Europe, leaders recently ripped up the 1951 refugee convention – a landmark document partly inspired by the failures of people such as the Evian delegates – in order to justify deporting Syrians back to Turkey, a country where most can't work legally, despite recent legislative changes; where some have allegedly been deported back to Syria; and still more have been shot at the border.
Schellnhuber told the delegates: "In order to stay below 2C (3.6F) [the internationally agreed limit for global warming], or even 3C, we need to have something really disruptive, which I would call an induced implosion of the carbon economy over the next 20-30 years. 20-30 years
