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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Michael Tomasky

That convention roll call

It seems like the right thing to have Hillary's name placed in nomination. Whether it happened or didn't happen, people would talk about it, so they might as well just do it so that people can't go on television and offer dark speculation about bad blood between the two camps and so forth.

As Greg Sargent reports, said alleged bad blood has been greatly exaggerated and the negotiations have been pretty amicable. Undoubtedly, things will be engineered in such a way that Clinton somehow won't end up getting all that many votes.

The only catch I can see is the possibility that some Clinton supporters in the hall who didn't get the amicability memo might act out somehow -- lustily cheering Clinton's name or even more lustily booing Obama's. Clinton herself can do much to influence this the night before of course, when she delivers her speech, by saying something like, "I felt it important symbolically for young women across America to see that woman can do this, but there is no doubt that our nominee is Barack Obama and we will march with him to the White House" etc.

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