Pro-Clinton Group Aims to Make Convention Vote Count

A group still supporting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) for president is trying to make sure that her nomination vote at the Democratic convention is genuine.

The Denver Group has called for months for an open convention. Now that Clinton and Barack Obama’s campaigns have announced that her name would be placed in nomination for a roll call vote in Denver, the group’s blog suggested that Clinton still has a chance at becoming the party’s general election candidate.
“There has to be a legitimate, open convention with an acknowledgement [sic] that by their own rules the Democratic Party does not now have an official nominee,” a blog post read. “Senator Clinton’s name in nomination has to mean a genuinely democratic opportunity for super delegates to exercise their judgment and to cast their votes for the nominee they are willing to take responsibility for sending out against the Republicans, based on who they think will be the better candidate and the better President.”
The blog post stressed that the vote cannot be symbolic.

“If anyone has anything up their sleeve, if they think they can turn this into some kind of ‘symbolic’ event – as one New York Times reporter called it – so that putting Senator Clinton’s name in nomination is no more than a dog and pony show, today’s measures will not only fail to unify the party, the end result will leave the party even more divided, angry and rancorous than it was before. We hope it won’t come to that. But we will continue to hold the DNC’s feet to the fire to make sure it does not.”