Posted on 05/08/2008 1:22:11 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Michigan Democratic leaders have settled on a plan to give presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton 69 delegates and Barack Obama 59 as a way to get the delegates seated at the national convention.
Clinton won the Jan. 15 Michigan primary and was to get 73 delegates under state party rules. Obama was to get 55 delegates. The state also has 29 superdelegates.
The state party's executive committee voted Wednesday to ask approval for the plan from the national party's Rules and Bylaws Committee. It would shrink Clinton's delegate edge from 18 to 10 and allow the 157 delegates and superdelegates to be seated at the convention.
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She has something up her sleeve (or pant leg) folks. If Michigan gets seated I will bet she will get the “super delegates” votes. Just remember, there is always a reason when the Clintons do anything. Both are very calculating.
I’d expect this to be challenged by both Clinton and Obama. Obama’s name wasn’t even on the ballot. How do they assign delegates to him when they have no idea how many people would have voted for him? Not only that, how many people who voted for Hillary might have voted for Obama, except his name wasn’t on the ballot? 35% voted Undecided and are ASSUMED to be Obama supporters, but who knows for sure?
This is even more ludicrous than counting the hanging chads, if that’s even possible.
The DNC has it’s own plan, eh? What is it this time? “Mission: Retrofit”?
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