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Delegate votes still recorded despite Obama acclamation
Although Democrats declared Barack Obama their presidential nominee by unanimous acclamation Wednesday afternoon, ballots for chief rival Hillary Clinton were still recorded in some state delegations.
Delegates started marking their paper ballots in their hotel rooms Wednesday morning, hours before the actual roll call of the states that ended prematurely when Clinton herself moved that the convention unanimously declare Obama their 2008 presidential nominee.
In the Texas delegation, for example, Obama got 124 delegate votes and Clinton got 96, with only one of Clinton’s pledged delegates switching to Obama.
Clinton asked the convention delegates to make Obama’s nomination unanimous “in the sprit of unity, with the goal of victory.”
Her request came midway through the traditional roll call of the states and was the culmination of a painstaking agreement worked out between both campaigns to present a unified front on the eve of Obama’s acceptance speech.
At the time of her request, the roll call vote stood at 1,549.5 votes for Obama and 341.5 votes for Clinton.
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