NEWS FLASH: There is *always* a roll call at the convention. [View All]

[QC]

In fact, the roll call is one of the high points of the convention, certainly the most entertaining.

The head of each delegation stands up and announces that ___, which produces more cottage cheese or NFL quarterbacks or lobsters or what have you than any other state in the greatest nation on earth, is proud to award its {insert number} delegates to ___, the next president of the United States!

Then the members of the delegation (many of whom have a few drinks in them) all wave their funny hats and scream (this is called a "demonstration" and generally all the other delegations join in), and then the next delegation steps up and does the same.

Sometimes the delegations swap their order around so that the nominee's home state can be the one to "put him over the top."

It is nothing new or sinister or even, for any reasonably informed person, slightly unusual that Senator Clinton wants a roll call. We always do it.

Those looking for reason to be outraged or fearful need to find something better than this.