California's Vote

A couple people have been wondering about last night's vote and why California passed.

California has 441 votes and with that many cast at the beginning of the vote, many of the small states would not matter. We usually pass and let each state have a say and then come in at the end and put it over the top. This night, the point was to let Illinois (his home) put it over the top, but in a beautiful move to show unity, Illinois passed to New York to allow Hillary Clinton (one of their two Senators), to call for a unanimous vote for Barack Obama. The reason this was so important;
1) her supporters thought the roll call was being taken from her and a voice vote would be rammed through
2) her supporters petitioned to have a roll call vote as an honor to her and won one
3) knowing this, Hillary in an effort to show her support for Obama, moved for a voice vote
It was all brilliant.
Pam