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You're obviously new at this, so I'll explain.
"Frontrunner" means little when you're only pulling 25% of the vote. Yes, he'll likely get the highest number of delegates at this rate because the vote is getting split so many ways.
But for every 100 college kids he gets to the voting booth that wouldn't normally vote, you'll see 200 either stay home in disgust or vote third party or for Trump.
That's why growing the electorate is so hard to do. You bring in new voters but chase away others who are nothing like those new voters.
Bernie isn't going to get the needed 1,991 delegates, which will bring about a brokered convention. I think the DNC will give the needed delegates to the top moderate and take it from Bernie.
The DNC will basically be forever destroyed if Bernie ideology takes over the party for good. They'll lose every moderate they have. I don't see them letting that happen.
You can't be so sure of any of what you are saying. First, Bernie polls better among independents than among Democrats, and is getting the majority of independents. Second, Bernie is now attracting a lot of moderate support. Third, Bernie actually got 40.5% of the popular vote in Nevada and Warren got 11.5% so if Warren drops out which looks likely, those votes will likely transfer most to Bernie, who would then be at 52%. Fourth, even if this doesn't happen, just with his 40.5% in Nevada, Bernie got 66% of the Nevada delegates because given the 15% threshold that others didn't make, his total got recalculated up to account for 100% of delegates.
If Bernie continues to earn 66% of delegates each state or most states, then he WILL achieve a simple majority in the convention.