In case this point is still at issue, or whatever...
Quote:
Florida, Michigan cannot save Clinton
From AP
WASHINGTON – Michigan and Florida alone can't save Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign.
Interviews with those considering how to handle the two states' banished convention delegates found little interest in the former first lady's best-case scenario. Her position, part of a formidable comeback challenge, is that all the delegates be seated in accordance with their disputed primaries.
Even if they were, it wouldn't erase Barack Obama's growing lead in delegates.
The Democratic Party's Rules and Bylaws Committee, a 30-member panel charged with interpreting and enforcing party rules, is to meet May 31 to consider how to handle Michigan and Florida's 368 delegates . . .
The Associated Press interviewed a third of the panel members and several other Democrats involved in the negotiations and found widespread agreement that the states must be punished for stepping out of line. If not, many members say, other states will do the same thing in four years.
"We certainly want to be fair to both candidates, and we want to be sure that we are fair to the 48 states who abided by the rules," said Democratic National Committee Secretary Alice Germond, a panel member unaligned with either candidate. "We don't want absolute chaos for 2012"...
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It goes on to say that Clinton has formally repeated her "count every vote" argument and to discuss options for Obama, including generous ones to suggest, given his lead at this point.
One wonders how a such a generous offer on his part wrt to these states, in exchange for a commitment by her not to pressure him for the VP slot, might play. One might in such a way be able to test the level of commitment to count every vote, in that way.
Steve