Hillary Clinton officially won the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday. When the final tally came in, Clinton had 2,838 delegate votes with 1,843 for Sanders and 55 abstentions. In other words, 40 percent of the delegates voted against Clinton.
The last time so many Democratic delegates voted against the eventual nominee was 1984, when Walter Mondale beat Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson. Mondale got 56 percent of the delegates’ votes from the delegates to Hart’s 31 percent and Jackson’s 12 percent.
In every convention from 1980-2012, the Democratic nominee got at least 70 percent of the delegates to vote in their favor, including 72 percent for President Obama in 2008.
Jason Russell is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.
