Clinton's 'nuclear option:' Force Fla, Mich.

baltimore sun ^ | 2008.5.4 | Mark Silva

[TeleStraightShooter]

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If Clinton does well or outright wins in Indiana and/or North Carolina this week, if her argument for electability takes hold and if enough party activists are willing to withstand the revolt that would ensue, Clinton could force a vote of the party's bylaws committee to seat the disputed, Clinton-rich delegations of Florida and Michigan and overtake Barack Obama's delegate lead.

The Clinton campaign, however, maintains that it has no "secret plan,'' and has posted on its Web-site something on this subject which is included on the jump of this Swamp posting. Read more here, and hear from camp Clnton below: "Hillary Clinton's campaign has a secret weapon to build its delegate count, but her top strategists say privately that any attempt to deploy it would require a sharp (and by no means inevitable) shift in the political climate within Democratic circles by the end of this month,'' Edsall writes in The Huffington Post. "With at least 50 percent of the Democratic Party's 30-member Rules and Bylaws Committee committed to Clinton, her backers could -- when the committee meets at the end of this month -- try to ram through a decision to seat the disputed 210-member Florida and 156-member Michigan delegations,'' Edsall suggests. "Such a decision would give Clinton an estimated 55 or more delegates than Obama, according to Clinton campaign operatives.
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[TeleStraightShooter]

The point is the number of delegates needed to clinch the nomination will not be 2025.5 as currently advertised by BHO's MSM Sycophants.

For starters there are 55 superDs from Fla & Mi that are not seated yet and will most probably have full voting rights restored. This will raise the magic number to 2054.

Team HRC could reduce the delegate margin by as much as 113 with this power play after the Credentials committee meets in June which will be comprised of about:
84 BHO members
77 HRC members
25 DNC members

If only 20% (37 members) dissent from the committees decision they can appeal to the convention floor in late August. There is NO way this will be wrapped up by June.

[TeleStraightShooter]

Also - The delegate total could expand up to 4,416 moving the number to win the nomination to 2,228½.

[Kozak]

This won't be over until the Toons drag it through the courts. The thought of watching competing teams of Rat shysters tear each other apart in court warms my heart....

[TeleStraightShooter]

SCOTUS legal precedent notwithstanding that clearly defers judicial intervention in private party matters, The (D) loser will probably try and sue anyway.

[Billthedrill]

Well, fortunately for the Dems they have adults in charge and will never let this sort of thing continue long enough to damage the party. The head of the DNC is going to step in any day now. Let's see, that'd be...

Howard Dean.

Sweet. I think I'm gonna spend my tax give-back on an industrial grade popcorn popper.

[rogue yam]

There is NO way this will be wrapped up by June.

How do I spell "victory"? C-H-A-O-S.

[Ann Archy]

Rules are for the LITTLE PEOPLE, not the CLINTONS!