Reply #147: Delegates are ALWAYS pressured to support the nominee

[democrattotheend]

One of my coworkers said that in 2004 he had the job of trying to convince the Kucinich delegates from Washington State to vote for Kerry when they wanted to vote for Kucinich despite being released. Typically there are floor whips who try to get state delegations delivered unanimously when possible. I kind of agree that they should have let the roll call go on, but I think doing it the way they did it was Clinton's choice as much as Obama's. In many respects it was a winning outcome for her...she got to look magnanimous and got herself into many of the headlines about Obama being formally nominated. I am not complaining about that at all, but I don't think she was pressured to do it...like I said, it was a win for her as much as for Obama in terms of helping to restore her standing in the party and set herself up for a future run.