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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

A Deal

posted by on August 27 at 10:26 AM

A deal has been worked out between the Obama and Hillary camps with regard to the roll call vote this afternoon. But the details are still fuzzy.

Via the AP’s Nedra Pickler:

Democratic delegates began marking their presidential nominating ballots Wednesday, making the unprecedented choice between a black man and a white woman. But only a limited number of the ballots were expected to be counted in an afternoon roll call before Barack Obama was declared the party’s presidential nominee by acclamation.

With the convention balloting just hours away, delegates still were waiting to hear which states would participate in the roll call before it was cut off in unanimous support for Obama. The abbreviated vote was the result of a deal between Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton so that some of her backers could express their support without dragging out a divided process.

The deal was short on specifics, though. Delegates still were not clear which states would get to participate in the roll call. State delegation chairs were simply instructed in a joint letter from Clinton and Obama advisers to distribute ballots to delegates Wednesday morning and return them no later than 4 p.m., when voting is scheduled to get under way.

Hillary Clinton is addressing her delegates at 1 pm Denver time, well after those delegates received their ballots and could begin marking them as they wished. But any roll call drama that might have resulted will be quashed by a motion for nomination by acclamation. Still, it seems like this would require a yea/nay vote from the seated delegates. We’ll be at the hall early today to witness any theatrics.

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1

While Nedra Pickler writes about an unprecedented choice between a black man and a white woman, she fails to point out that Barack Obama was educated in a radical Madrassa.

Posted by Slim | August 27, 2008 10:53 AM
2

The deal was worked out a couple of days ago, actually, I sent you the SlogTips.

Posted by Will in Seattle | August 27, 2008 10:58 AM
3

I still don't get why a roll call vote would be so catastrophic. Everyone knows that Obama is going to win and they'll be happy about it once it's settled. What's wrong with a little stage-managed drama?

Posted by josh | August 27, 2008 11:00 AM
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@2: You're wrong. The deal was BEING worked out a couple of days ago, but this is the newest and most correct info out there.

@3: Agreed.

Posted by annie | August 27, 2008 11:09 AM
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@1: a**hole
@3: agree

Posted by Tony | August 27, 2008 12:08 PM
6

So do we still refer to the Obama supporters as the cult, or is it finally OK to refer to delegates who would vote for their woman if they found her trunk found with decapitated remains of her teenage poolboy in her trunk?

Posted by Banna | August 27, 2008 12:08 PM
7

No, the public announcement was that it was still being worked out, but there's a lag time between the actual deal and the announcement of the actual deal.

I also agree a roll call vote would be kind of fun, but that Clinton should ask people to change their votes early, and states could do something like say "The Great State of Pennsylvania, with a massive delegation pledged to vote for Senator Hillary Clinton in overwhelming numbers, proudly follows her desires and casts 90 votes for Obama and 10 votes for Clinton."

Posted by Will in Seattle | August 27, 2008 1:24 PM
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@5 Sorry, too soon, that was a lame attempt at a Nedra Pickleresque non-sequitur.

Posted by Slim | August 27, 2008 2:19 PM

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