of a bit ofognition a herdsman talladega, trains leading -- leaving the station, a snowball type of thing, that the anti-clay forces that might come into play on clay's the half. the second thing that they did was they passed a rule whereby whoever had the most votes got that state's in tire vote. to put it -- that state's in tire vote. to put it in a modern context, take allbe a winner primary. clay had substantial minority and a lot of the harrison delegation. basically, by taking these votes away from him and awarding them ,o either harrisburg or scott that put another pin in henry clay's ambitions, and eventually would lead to his undoing. there were a total of three ballots with a lot of maneuvering in between. ballot, clay ended up with 103 votes. was 128.ity almost unstoppable have the rules not been changed. the second ballot, things started to move a little bit. one of the states that was not able to vote on the first ballot was michigan because they had three delegates, and only two of them had arrived by then. they viewed it as a flat out high. nobody gets the vote. michigan en