Roll Call Rolling
August 27th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Texas state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, one of three female co-chairs of Denver’s Democratic National Convention (a record, at this multiply historic gathering), gavelled the proceedings to order today at 3 p.m. After a few formalities, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi kicked off the Presidential Nominating Process — the actual bread and butter, business-wise, of the week’s proceedings. Clinton and Obama both were nominated and seconded, followed by the start of the roll call vote.
A note on the roll call vote. Some Texas delegates were apparently surprised by a campaign-brokered agreement to conduct the vote via paper ballot at the delegation’s hotel this morning, rather than conduct the actual balloting on the floor. What difference, if any, the location of the balloting makes appears to be moot, as the roll call is taking place on the floor as this is written, as usual. There’s plenty of opportunity to rhetorically recognize those now-familiar 18 million cracks Sen. Clinton’s historic campaign inscribed in this country’s ultimate glass ceiling.
