Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Michigan Solution?

The rumor mill has been going for a few days about a decret deal being worked out to seat Florida and Michigan's deleagates. I wonder how they plan on doing that, since the Obama people have rejected every attempt to have a revote? Splitting the delegates 50/50 is a non-starter in my mind because Hillary Clinton will not accept any solution that keeps Obama in the lead in the popular vote.

Apparently Carl Levin and others want the Dems and the DNC to split the delegates The four want to allocate 69 pledged delegates to Hillary Clinton and 59 to Barack Obama. The approach splits the difference between the equal delegate proposal coming out of Chicago (g4 for each) and the 73-to-55 delegate split that the Clinton campaign would obtain from the results of the primary, with almost all of the uncommitted delegates being pledged to Obama. The four also write that they oppose the challenge by DNC member Joel Ferguson, which would give superdelegates a full vote and pledged delegates half of a vote.
THE PROPOSAL represents a climbdown of sorts for Michigan Democrats and is not likely to be well received at the Clinton campaign. DNC officials have said that, absent a deal between the two candidates, only the credentials committee can sanction a solution.
A senior Obama official said of the proposal, "we'll look into it."
A letter was sent outlining the proposal.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/04/michigan_dems_propose_delegate.php

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