Democratic Delegates can Vote for Hillary in the National Convention
Published in Folha
(Brazil) on August 14, 2008
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(Brazil) on August 14, 2008
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by Caroline Martinez.
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The democratic delegates will be able to symbolically vote for ex-candidate Hillary Clinton in the Democratic National Convention, an event that makes the party's candidate to the general elections official.
"I am convinced that honoring the historic campaign of Senator Clinton will help us to celebrate this defining moment in our history, and will unite and strengthen the party," said democratic candidate Barack Obama, in a joint statement.
In the convention, which will take place August 25-28 in Denver, the delegates make their votes from the primaries official, and the superdelegates' about 800 party leaders confirm their endorsements. The gesture, merely symbolic, will not alter the confirmation of the candidacy of Obama, whose nomination has already been guaranteed due to his majority of delegates and superdelegates in this year's primaries.
"Senator Obama's campaign encouraged the placement of Senator Clinton's name in the dispute for the nomination as a demonstration of unity and in recognition of the historic race that she ran and the fact that she was the first woman to run in the primaries of our nation," continues the statement.
Hillary is supposed to speak on the second night of the convention, when 88 years of women's suffrage will be celebrated.
The announcement that Hillary's name will be included in the convention is a response by the Obama campaign to the rumors that her supporters would present her candidacy.
The fact is that, after months of a tough and bitter dispute over the nomination, many of Hillary's supporters simply do not want to support the candidate that took the senator out the race. They contend that the ex-first lady was treated unfairly by the media for being the first woman with a real chance of conquering the White House.
The gesture would have been a way of showing that they are not satisfied with Obama's candidacy.
In order to avoid the clear signal of disunity in one of the most crucial moments of the democratic campaign, Obama came out first and offered to "officially" include and honor his ex-rival as a way of calming her supporters.
The details as to how exactly this will be done are not yet being discussed.
"I am convinced that honoring the historic campaign of Senator Clinton will help us to celebrate this defining moment in our history, and will unite and strengthen the party," said democratic candidate Barack Obama, in a joint statement.
In the convention, which will take place August 25-28 in Denver, the delegates make their votes from the primaries official, and the superdelegates' about 800 party leaders confirm their endorsements. The gesture, merely symbolic, will not alter the confirmation of the candidacy of Obama, whose nomination has already been guaranteed due to his majority of delegates and superdelegates in this year's primaries.
"Senator Obama's campaign encouraged the placement of Senator Clinton's name in the dispute for the nomination as a demonstration of unity and in recognition of the historic race that she ran and the fact that she was the first woman to run in the primaries of our nation," continues the statement.
Hillary is supposed to speak on the second night of the convention, when 88 years of women's suffrage will be celebrated.
The announcement that Hillary's name will be included in the convention is a response by the Obama campaign to the rumors that her supporters would present her candidacy.
The fact is that, after months of a tough and bitter dispute over the nomination, many of Hillary's supporters simply do not want to support the candidate that took the senator out the race. They contend that the ex-first lady was treated unfairly by the media for being the first woman with a real chance of conquering the White House.
The gesture would have been a way of showing that they are not satisfied with Obama's candidacy.
In order to avoid the clear signal of disunity in one of the most crucial moments of the democratic campaign, Obama came out first and offered to "officially" include and honor his ex-rival as a way of calming her supporters.
The details as to how exactly this will be done are not yet being discussed.