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Democratic officials are "scrambling" to figure out how to avoid embarrassment at the Democratic National Convention from Hillary Clinton supporters that are demanding a roll call vote. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama seem to disagree on the method of appeasing her supporters in order to unite them with the rest of the party again. In a recent answer to one of Clinton's ardent supporters, who asked Clinton about an open roll call vote at the convention, shown on YouTube , Clinton said she was looking for a strategy to use at the convention that would offer her supporters a "catharsis". Clinton said "The best way I think to do that is to have a strategy so that my delegates feel like they've had a role and that their legitimacy has been validated. It's as old as Greek drama. There's a catharsis. Everybody comes, and they want to yell and scream and have their opportunity, and I think that's all to the good." Obama disagrees with that as evidenced by his statements shown in a Washington Post article, "I'm letting our respective teams work out the details. I don't think we're looking for catharsis. I think what we are looking for is energy and excitement about the prospects of changing this country, and I think that people who supported a whole range of different candidates during the primaries are going to come out of that convention feeling absolutely determined that we have to take the White House back." Complicating matters furt ...
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Democratic officials are "scrambling" to figure out how to avoid embarrassment at the Democratic National Convention from Hillary Clinton supporters that are demanding a roll call vote. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama seem to disagree on the method of appeasing her supporters in order to unite them with the rest of the party again. In a recent answer to one of Clinton's ardent supporters, who asked Clinton about an open roll call vote at the convention, shown on YouTube , Clinton said she was looking for a strategy to use at the convention that would offer her supporters a "catharsis". Clinton said "The best way I think to do that is to have a strategy so that my delegates feel like they've had a role and that their legitimacy has been validated. It's as old as Greek drama. There's a catharsis. Everybody comes, and they want to yell and scream and have their opportunity, and I think that's all to the good." Obama disagrees with that as evidenced by his statements shown in a Washington Post article, "I'm letting our respective teams work out the details. I don't think we're looking for catharsis. I think what we are looking for is energy and excitement about the prospects of changing this country, and I think that people who supported a whole range of different candidates during the primaries are going to come out of that convention feeling absolutely determined that we have to take the White House back." Complicating matters furt ...