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To: koan who wrote (298185)	5/2/2016 10:00:30 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 541973

Hillary Clinton Endorses Barack Obama JUNE 7, 2008 Following is a transcript of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s speech Saturday on suspending her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions: nytimes.com OTH, a pol behaving badly... After defeating Kennedy in 24 of 34 primaries, Carter entered the party's convention in New York in August with 60 percent of the delegates pledged to him on the first ballot. Still, Kennedy refused to drop out. At the convention, after a futile last-ditch attempt by Kennedy to alter the rules to free delegates from their first-ballot pledges, Carter was renominated with 2,129 votes to 1,146 for Kennedy. Vice President Walter Mondale was also renominated. In his acceptance speech, Carter warned that Reagan's conservatism posed a threat to world peace and progressive social welfare programs from the New Deal to the Great Society. [15] en.wikipedia.org Would Carter have won, without the convention fight? Who knows? It didn't help.