While it looked like an open convention might have happened again, ultimately Hillary Clinton conceded even though she had won more popular votes than Obama at the primary ballot boxes<ref>http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2008&elect=1M </ref> . Veteran campaign consultant Rich Galen notes it is illegal to promise a federal job in exchange for doing something or not doing something; but in a closed door negotiation it might be legal for the Obama team to ask the Clinton team, "What would it take for you to release your delegates to us?". Progressives were onto the DLC's bait-and-switch tactics, advertising liberalism to voters while feeding at the trough of its Wall Street donors.
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Even though [[Hillary Clinton]] won the [[popular vote]] at the ballot box<ref>http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2008&elect=1M </ref> , [[Barack Obama]] gave more money to the Superdelegates.<ref>[http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/02/superdelegate-update/ Superdelegate Update], By Lindsay Renick Mayer, Center For Responsive Politics, February 28, 2008. opensecrets.org </ref>.