WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Backers of likely U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and defeated rival Hillary Clinton say they are negotiating to avoid a convention clash.
Negotiators for Sens. Obama, D-Ill., and Clinton, D-N.Y., are scrambling to find a compromise over talk that some Clinton's backers will offer her name in delegates' roll-call vote for the party nomination, The Washington Post reported Friday. Such a move could embarrass Obama and highlight fractures within the Democratic Party, the report said.