clay would probably have walked out of there as a nominee, but the anti-clay porchesthose werep thwartplan, which would result in theally nomination of either harrison or scott. sett thing they did was to a rule that rather than everybody sitting out here on the floor, casting their ballots , a committee would be formed where each state could appoint whoo three representatives would go out and decide on the each of those three groups would cast their state's entire votes, which was a recognition of a bit of a herd mentality trends the station, snowball thing that the anti- clay forces thought might come into play on clay's behalf. the second thing that they did is that they passed a rule whereby whoever had the most votes in the state delegation vote.at state's entire winnerd have been like a take all primary rather than proportional representation. clay had substantial minority support and a lot of the harrison delegation. basically taking these votes away from him and awarded them to either harrisburg or scott by what became known as the unit rule, that put another pin in ,enry clay's am