What happens if MI and FL delegates are seated?
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What happens if MI and FL delegates are seated at the end of May?
I bet the DNC rules committee will give the appearance of seating the delegates so they can quell the uprising among Dems, but will do it in such a way that it does not benefit Hillary.
But the problem doesn't just "go away" as the DNC would like.
MI and FL were clearly going for Clinton, so Dean and his cronies chose to nullify those states. They calculated that this would stall the Clinton campaign, and they were right.
But seating the delegates now, long after the damage has been done, does not make it all better.
Why?
It doesn't give Hillary her momentum back - how many states would she have won if she was able to create an early lead?
It doesn't give back months of media attention to Hillary.
And it doesn't give back all of the lost campaign contributions.
It's pretty clear by now that Howard Dean and the DNC had selected Obama over Clinton early on.
The primaries were just a way for all of us to feel like we were involved and add legitimacy to their decision. The mistake they made was that they underestimated how strongly we would hold to our principles of right and wrong. Dean and his cronies lacked these principles, and assumed that we lacked them too.
They were wrong.
I bet the DNC rules committee will give the appearance of seating the delegates so they can quell the uprising among Dems, but will do it in such a way that it does not benefit Hillary.
But the problem doesn't just "go away" as the DNC would like.
MI and FL were clearly going for Clinton, so Dean and his cronies chose to nullify those states. They calculated that this would stall the Clinton campaign, and they were right.
But seating the delegates now, long after the damage has been done, does not make it all better.
Why?
It doesn't give Hillary her momentum back - how many states would she have won if she was able to create an early lead?
It doesn't give back months of media attention to Hillary.
And it doesn't give back all of the lost campaign contributions.
It's pretty clear by now that Howard Dean and the DNC had selected Obama over Clinton early on.
The primaries were just a way for all of us to feel like we were involved and add legitimacy to their decision. The mistake they made was that they underestimated how strongly we would hold to our principles of right and wrong. Dean and his cronies lacked these principles, and assumed that we lacked them too.
They were wrong.


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