You want the clowns and the balloons together at the end. Getting the clowns rounded up is supposed to be the hard part. Getting the balloons onto them is supposed to be easy.
Could somebody please re-dub the soundtrack at the end of Kerry's speech, and as the convention producer franticly screams "More BALLOONS! MORE BALOONS!!!....." slowly bring up the song "Send in the Clowns", reaching full volume as the celebration culminates?