People outside of Michigan are having a mini-fit over Sen. Hillary Clinton's statement that she wants to see the delegates from Michigan and Florida seated at the Democratic National Convention, even though the states broke party rules by moving their primaries.
Daily Kos takes a decidedly jaundiced view of the proposal, and commentators at his site are attacking Clinton. Over at Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall accuses Clinton of trying to "muscle the party" into seating Michigan's delegates. On MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" Friday (January 25, 2008), the story angle was that it was a "Clintonian" move and somehow not quite fair.
But Michigan Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer has insisted all along that the national party's threat not to seat Michigan's delegates was an empty one and that the eventual nominee, no matter who it is, will want the state's delegates to attend.
In fact, it's the way these matters have been handled in the past.
That appears to be news to the rest of the world. Sometimes I wonder how much these national reporters really know about the nitty-gritty of how things work.
2 comments:
the nitty gritty is that our state party leaders botched the primary so badly that our delegates will only be counted after the nomination has been decided by other states.
It's very possible that no candidal that no candidate will have the delegates needed for the nomination. That means that Michigan's delegates could be the deciding delegates. They WILL be seated.
We lost the primary battle but we will win the war.
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