[gov_bean_ counter]

Oh yeah, Howie, run with this one. You will be found stuffed in your briefcase.

What a toad.

[Eurale]

Howard Preen will hijack the convention. Hitlers has already picked his cement over-boots.

[Miss Didi]

As I just posted...One of Dean’s 25 from Fla was on chatting with the Friends this morning saying that he remains neutral and will decide on a candidate at the convention. So this means there will be a choice? He also said that Fla & Michigan needed to be seated and thought that they would be. So...it sounds like Mrs. C. is not dropping out, based on this.

[Savage Beast]

It all depends on how much dirt she’s got on ‘em.

[paudio]

Leila Sahar Background: A college senior at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. Spent recent summers interning in the DNC’s Political Department and working as an assistant at the Voting Rights Institute. Dean Connection: Served as DNC intern under Dean chairmanship.

They didn't have enough people in the party that he appointed an intern to the Credentials Committee?

[ken21]

i can’t remember an election year as interesting as this.

1968?

[Congressman Billybob]

This is the standard blather which has appeared all over the national media in the last six weeks. It is wrong, wrong, wrong.

As a former parliamentarian for a national political convention, and participant in quite a few other political conventions, here is how the process actually works:

All delegates whose elections or appointments are not at issue, are seated. Disputes over any delegation or individual are submitted to the Credentials Committee. Meanwhile, the main Convention with its uncontested delegates, chooses its officers and sets its rules of operation.

In due course, the Credentials Committee reports to the floor of the Convention whatever conclusions it has reached about the disputed delegates or delegations. The point is, however, that the Committee only proposes. The Convention must act on those proposals.

So, it does not matter who controls the Credentials Committee. It only matters who controls the floor of the Convention.

As I have written before, whoever controls a majority of the votes on the floor BEFORE the Michigan and Florida issues come to the floor, will still control a majority AFTER those issues are decided. If the Credentials Committee recommends any alternative which will reverse the existing majority on the floor, its recommendation will be rejected.

This is hardball politics at its highest. Unless Hillary Clinton both wins Pennsylvania strongly, and then pulls a highly unlikely upset in North Carolina, Barack Obama will go to the Democrat Convention with a majority of the uncontested delegates (without Florida or Michigan). Therefore, the solution which his delegates will permit for those two states will be to divide the delegates between him and her so that his majority remains intact.

Therefore, "Dean's 25 delegates" are, in the long run, irrelevant to the outcome.

Congressman Billybob

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[RouxStir]

The fun has only just begun.

[nyyankeefan]

The Dean 25 could decide Clinton’s fate...

lib/dem democracy.....study the old ussr....both are the same!!!

[RoseofTexas]

I guess with 35,000 numb minding robots showing up in Phil for a OSama rally would scare the pants off of you and make you want to scream YYYAAAAAAHAHHAHAAAAAAAAGHHHHHH! Dean is wetting his pants off for Barak HUSSEIN Osama! This is another vengeance shot at the SHE-DEVIL!