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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.

Reader Comments
  
Fair
By Alley May 23rd 2008 at 9:09 pm EDT
Its not fair if they count the votes because none of the candidate campaigned in Florida and Michigan only had one candidates name on the ballot.
Re: Fair
By charctine May 23rd 2008 at 10:29 pm EDT
That was his choice. He thought he wouln't need Michigan. His fault.
  
Re: Fair
By Alley May 23rd 2008 at 9:19 pm EDT
And what is Hillary trying to do? Oh, win. Game Over. She wasnt worried about Florida and Michigan votes until she was losing.

Vote for a democrat!and not a republican.
  
Re: Fair
By Democrat in Indianapolis, IN May 23rd 2008 at 9:17 pm EDT
THEY ARE GOING TO DO IT FAIR GUESS A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE UPSET AND DON'T WANT IT HALF AND HALF GO HILLARY
  
Re: Give and Take
By charctine May 23rd 2008 at 10:30 pm EDT
Bravo!
  
Great Post
By Terry May 23rd 2008 at 10:25 pm EDT
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton 08

The Inclusive Choice
  
Wrong, they were!
By Michelle K. May 25th 2008 at 2:38 pm EDT
They were VERY wrong! Only Hillary for me!