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Posted on 05/28/2008 at 2:50 pm by Bob Cesca

Via BooMan, Pickler is reporting:

Democratic National Committee rules require that the two states lose at least half of their convention delegates for holding elections too early, the party’s legal experts wrote in a 38-page memo.

The memo was sent late Tuesday to the 30 members of the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee, which plans to meet Saturday at a Washington hotel. The committee is considering ways to include the two important general election battlegrounds at the nominating convention in August, and the staff analysis says seating half the delegates is “as far as it legally can” go.

This cinches it. I’m betting that the ruling on Saturday will determine that half of the delegates will be seated.

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  • ceu

    or all with a half vote each. Either way, Clinton will be crying foul and her supporters will be having hissy fits in the blogosphere. Sounds like a fun weekend…

  • Nanotyrannus

    Agreed, ceu. This doesn’t end for her on Saturday. She’s going to the convention. She’ll argue that if this had been dealt with earlier in the season, she’d have won Michigan, Florida and Vulcan and everyone knows those are the states that count in the general and blah blah blah insane math argument blah blah they should count twice for her blah blah crazy blah.We’re looking at a summer of her refusing to concede.

  • ceu

    We were right, Nano – they’re bitching already. (And it’s all Obama’s fault)http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/28/clinton-camp-dismisses-ma_n_103927.htmlThe arguments were part of a broader push by the Clinton campaign to legitimize the idea that both unofficial primary elections should be settled in their current format. Aides to the New York Democrat, as they have in the past, continued to argue on Tuesday that Florida’s delegation should be seated in its entirety and that Michigan – where Sen. Barack Obama was not on the ballot – should have its “uncommitted” delegates remain uncommitted.”We are going to go to the committee with our position we think it is a fair position, within the construct of the rules,” said Harold Ickes, one of Clinton’s chief strategists. “And very importantly we think it is the position that recognizes the votes of 2.3 million people which can not just be blithely set aside, which the Obama campaign has been seemingly ready to do month after month.”Well, shit, Mr Ickes. You didn’t seem to have a problem with it when FL was told its delegates wouldn’t be seated in Aug, 2007…

  • ceu

    Good God! Is anyone listening to Dan Abrams & the letter Clinton wrote to one of the Democratic committees (rules, maybe?) and her new math?? I was too stunned to take it all in, but apparently she thinks that the delegates from the caucus states should be counted as they would be in the general election and therefore, she’d have the advantage, or some such nonsense. We all knew she’d try some new measure, but this one seems awfully twisted – I mean, more twisted than usual.Someone needs to figure this out and explain it to me…