ext_39367 ([identity profile] wisn.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] ilanarama 2008-02-07 11:06 pm (UTC)

Interestingly, Michigan (and Florida) have no elected delegates to the Democratic convention because they violated party rules in scheduling their primaries. And now the Dem party is offering to restore their delegates if they agree to run caucuses late in the primary cycle.

Part of what makes this interesting is that if party simply restored the delegates chosen by the invalidated elections, Hilary Clinton would have swept both states. Sorry, that's a bad way to phrase it because I don't think there's any significant conspiracy going on behind this. Obama obeyed party rules by withdrawing from both states' early primaries, and Clinton did not, so there are plenty of legit reasons for a re-do.

Probably only Kucinich and Gravel have reasons to be pissed. Maybe.

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