Is Half a Roll Call Better Than None?

There were rumors running around yesterday that there would not be a roll call at the Dem convention after all. Hillary voters weren't going to get their "catharsis". Now it looks like another plan is in the works, a plan that will give some delegates a catharsis while others will have to seek their emotional release another way:

As thousands of Democratic delegates converged on Denver to nominate Barack Obama as their presidential nominee, one name on many people’s lips is Hillary Clinton.

Obama is expected to accept the nomination Thursday, but first must set to rest reminders of the bitter primary battle between him and his former rival.

They are working on a deal to give her some votes in the roll call for the nomination and end the divided balloting in unanimous consent for Obama.

Democratic officials involved in the negotiations said Monday the idea is that at the start of the state-by-state vote for the presidential nomination Wednesday night, delegates would cast their votes for Clinton or Obama.

But the voting would be cut off after a couple of states, the officials said, perhaps ending with New York, when Clinton herself would call for unanimous backing for Obama from the convention floor. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity while the deal was being finalized.

Clinton said she has told her delegates she will vote for Obama, but she would not instruct them how to vote.

*wink* *wink*

How are the Hillary guys and gals going to feel in those states not blessed with a roll call vote? How about those delegate chairmen that won't get to be on national TV as they proclaim "Mr. Chairman, the great State of Confusion, home of the best free-range tofu in the country and the first state to legalize chicken sodomy in solidarity with our transpecies brothers (SQUAWK!), proudly casts 210 votes for the Obamessiah, and 209 votes for HILLARY CLINTON!!!!"

What are those people going to do?

At least the New Yorkers will get to cast their votes. Otherwise they might be tempted to drink, and they've already been warned not to do that.