Democrats Are Advised to Seat Half of 2 States’ Delegations

by politisite | May 28, 2008 at 04:01 pm | 195 views | 4 comments

Democrats Are Advised to Seat Half of 2 States’ Delegations


Democratic Party determined that  half the delegates from Florida and Michigan can be seated at the party’s August convention, dealing a blow to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s efforts to seat the full delegations from those states



The rules committee of the Democratic National Committee meets on Saturday to determine whether to seat the delegates from these states, which were penalized for holding early primaries.


In asking that the full delegations from these states be seated, Mrs. Clinton hopes to narrow Senator Barack Obama’s delegate edge and make the case that by including the votes from these states, she will have more of the popular vote in the nominating contests, an assertion that has come under some dispute. But the party’s legal analysis, contained in a 38-page memo to the committee, says the committee can either seat only 50 percent of the delegates or seat them all but give them only half a vote, which amounts to the same thing.

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amyjudd
good stuff:

politisite, I like this story. It's good stuff. Clinton is losing.... I can feel it............

BigT
good stuff:

Just as long as this process continues to be drawn out, I'm happy. I guess. Heck, I still don't want to vote for McCain but I don't want a democrat to win either. I'm so conflicted. Eh.

moonwolf

She has already lost and is just too self-absorbed to gracefully acknowledge defeat, and do the right thing, supporting the Democrats against the Repugnicans.  With such dogged arrogance and denial of bald-faced facts thank goodness she won't be in the Whitehouse.  We've had more than enough of such blind intransigence over the last 7 1/2 years already!

Up here we just call people like that sore losers, y'all! 

azzayindia
good stuff:

politisite, I like this story. It's good stuff.

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