House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has declared Barack Obama the official nominee of the Democratic Party. Sen. Hillary Clinton, displaying unquestionable class, entered the hall to procedurally stop the reading of the roll call vote and declare Obama the party's nominee.
Every delegate's vote will still be officially counted, but Sen. Clinton believed the reading of the votes wasn't necessary in favor of unity.
Sen. Barbara Boxer just shared with us the tentative vote numbers from California:
Obama, 273. Clinton, 166.
President Clinton's speech is coming soon.
Background on convention blogger Matt Rogers: He is 27 and a farmer from Kingsburg. He worked on Hillary Clinton's campaign during the primary election campaign, and is one of three Democratic delegates from the 21st Congressional District.
I had not thought that class was a factor to be considered. I changed my mind, or rather the governor of Alaska had changed it for me. There are the patricians and there are the plebeians; and let the bloggers make of it what they may.