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DNC shifts nomination vote to the hotels
DNC shifts nomination vote to the hotels
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Democratic Convention or Banana Republic? [someone]
Ace of Spades HQ — ... to the darkest, least transparent places imaginable: Their hotels. Hot Air has more , but not this gem... Sullivan said she had been startled by the hostility toward Clinton on the part of some Obama supporters. "The Obama people act like they lost," she said. Maybe not, but they're definitely acting like they're hiding something. Like, oh, the possibility of buyer's remorse?

The Democratic Party Exposed
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — ... The Obama camp is keeping an embarassing roll call from the floor. Do they not see how this makes those Hillary supporters even angrier?? ...

Uh Oh! DNC Shifts Nomination Vote To The Hotels
Hyscience — The DNCC has suddenly decided to have the roll call votes cast far away from the cameras and the television audiences, so instead of a normal floor vote, the tallies will be taken before delegates arrive at the Pepsi Center. Wow! Hillary's people, and likely Hillary, are going to be pissed. Unity? What unity? If it's all Kumbaya at the DNCC then why the change? Are there problems in paradise? More here ... ...

PUMAs crash and burn
No Runny Eggs — ... No state thus far (through Delaware) has cast all the pledged delegates that Clinton had going into today for her, though DC did throw more votes her way than pledged delegates (it still was under the combined pledged/superdelegates total). Guess that pre-vote in the hotels worked wonders. ...

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