Who decides what happens at the convention?

[JVS]

roll call vote, VP ballot, speeches, etc. Is this the Chairman's province, does the presumptive nominee decide, some kind of subcommittee, are there established rules of order? What should we expect?

[JVS]

1. Kick because I didn't use a GD:P post to learn nothing

[DevonRex]

2. Kickin too because I'd like to know the answers. nt

[Poll_Blind]

3. Kick, JVS, I don't want your post to go to waste either. It's a very good question and...

...one which I think there might be an all-encompassing Wiki page for.

PB

[TexasObserver]

4. the nominee runs the whole show, through his convention chair

[JVS]

5. So say the 2 votes that HRC wants. The roll call for president, and the VP vote...

she wants her name on the ballots for. Can he toss those votes or toss her from the ballots?

[The Magistrate]

7. There Will Be A Roll-Call Vote, Sir

When Sen. Obama wins it, the various states will petition the chair to alter their votes, and cast their entire delegations for Sen. Obama. The vote will then go onto the record as unanimous. This kind of theater is pretty common.

Only one candidate for Vice-president, pre-selected by Sen. Obama, will be put to the convention, and that nomination will be carried by acclaim.

[TexasObserver]

8. She can get her name put up for the nomination for president.

She can even have a vote, but as I've been saying for weeks, her delegate count peaked on June 3rd. Every day, she loses delegates to Obama, and they are not going to vote for her in August at the convention if she insists on putting her name in nomination. By the convention, she'll be lucky to have 25% of the delegates.

If she wishes to have a future in the Democratic party, she'll do what Obama wants, whatever that is. If she wants to fantasize that she's got some independent power base, she can try, but she's going to suffer a nasty public beatdown at the convention for doing so.

Bottom line is it's over, and Hillary's threats are hollow. Her bargaining power is virtually zero right now, and her talk of forcing votes only diminishes what little bargaining power she has.

As I said, the nominee runs the convention, through his chair. Hillary's a footnote, at this point, the last loser to fall out. She can make more noise, but she's not going to force Obama or the convention to do anything, with the possible exception of having a vote that embarrasses her.

[Patsy Stone]

6. If I'm not mistaken

The chair presides over the convention proceedings, the DNC secretary calls the roll, and once the nominee is chosen, they preside over the rest of the convention.

But I could be wrong.