Here is a quick post to announce the results.
As expected, the Democratic National Committee Rules and Bylaws Committee decided to seat Florida and Michigan delegates with half-votes.
So now the magic number is 2,118 delegates to secure the Democratic nomination. According to the TV version of CNN, Obama has 2,050; Hillary has 1,877. The CNN site still has the old numbers.
According to the Miami Herald:
The Clinton campaign will use Florida's new legitimacy to argue that her victory in the nation's largest battleground state makes her the stronger nominee. Though she will get fewer delegates than she sought, her campaign appeared resigned to the Florida resolution. Suggesting that the campaign will not contest it, one of her top advisors who serves on the DNC rules committee, Harold Ickes, said he was ''disappointed'' but would vote for the compromise.
But Ickes took a more combative stance when it came to Michigan, which also voted early and appealed its loss of delegates Saturday. The rules committee agreed on a compromise offered by Michigan Democrats to give Clinton 69 delegates and Obama 59, though each delegate, as in Florida's case, will get a half vote.
Clinton's camp had argued Obama shouldn't get any delegates in Michigan since he chose to take his name off the ballot and Ickes argued that the deal ''hijacked'' four delegates from Clinton.
''Mrs. Clinton has instructed me to reserve her rights to take this to the credentials committee,'' Ickes said, signaling the campaign intends to push the matter up until the nominating convention.
It ain't over kittens.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
Rules, Bylaws, and Halvsies
Here is a quick post to announce the results.
As expected, the Democratic National Committee Rules and Bylaws Committee decided to seat Florida and Michigan delegates with half-votes.
So now the magic number is 2,118 delegates to secure the Democratic nomination. According to the TV version of CNN, Obama has 2,050; Hillary has 1,877. The CNN site still has the old numbers.
According to the Miami Herald:
It ain't over kittens.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
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As expected, the Democratic National Committee Rules and Bylaws Committee decided to seat Florida and Michigan delegates with half-votes.
So now the magic number is 2,118 delegates to secure the Democratic nomination. According to the TV version of CNN, Obama has 2,050; Hillary has 1,877. The CNN site still has the old numbers.
According to the Miami Herald:
The Clinton campaign will use Florida's new legitimacy to argue that her victory in the nation's largest battleground state makes her the stronger nominee. Though she will get fewer delegates than she sought, her campaign appeared resigned to the Florida resolution. Suggesting that the campaign will not contest it, one of her top advisors who serves on the DNC rules committee, Harold Ickes, said he was ''disappointed'' but would vote for the compromise.
But Ickes took a more combative stance when it came to Michigan, which also voted early and appealed its loss of delegates Saturday. The rules committee agreed on a compromise offered by Michigan Democrats to give Clinton 69 delegates and Obama 59, though each delegate, as in Florida's case, will get a half vote.
Clinton's camp had argued Obama shouldn't get any delegates in Michigan since he chose to take his name off the ballot and Ickes argued that the deal ''hijacked'' four delegates from Clinton.
''Mrs. Clinton has instructed me to reserve her rights to take this to the credentials committee,'' Ickes said, signaling the campaign intends to push the matter up until the nominating convention.
It ain't over kittens.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
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