Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are working on a deal to give her some votes in the roll call for the Democratic presidential nomination, but quickly end the divided balloting in unanimous consent for Obama.
Democratic officials involved in the negotiations said Monday the idea is that at the start of the state-by-state vote for the presidential nomination Wednesday night, delegates would cast their votes for Clinton or Obama.
But the voting would be cut off after a couple of states, the officials said, perhaps ending with New York, when Clinton herself would call for unanimous backing for Obama from the convention floor. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity while the deal was being finalized.
I’m on the fence as to what would be more embarrassing for Obama; to let all the states participate in the roll call and risk pandelerium when Hillary supporters cast their vote for her, or to cut the roll call short in an obvious attempt to avoid that embarrassment. Mind you, I can see pandelerium ensuing if they try to cut the roll call short too, I don’t think the states that wouldn’t get to participate would like that too much.
