Saturday, March 8, 2008

Michigan, Florida Do Over

It seems that after going through the numbers of delegates needed to win a Democratic nomination, The Clinton camp is pushing harder and harder to seat the Michigan and Florida delegation. Both states were sanctioned last year after changing the dates of their primary to January 29th. Both states claimed to have do so to put the attention of the primaries into their state. Now because the Obama campaign has found a way to make it a real contest, states like Wyoming and Mississippi have a lot of media attention compared to 4 years ago. Florida and Michigan wished they had that same attention and there are discussions about having do over elections. But where do we found the money? The DNC don't want to change the rules in the middle of the game and sure don't want to finance a second election. It could reportedly cost 20 million to hold primaries. A Clinton supporter suggested that both campaigns raise or donate some money for those elections, which is more than unlikely since the Clinton's camp is already struggling finance-wise.
Here's a cost free solution: seat the delegates at the Convention and split them 50-50 between both campaigns and it's over.
Obviously the Clintons won't be too fond of that resolution since they keep claiming victories in an election where there was no contest: in Michigan Obama wasn't even in the ballot, and in Florida people did not bother to go to the polls since they knew their wouldn't count. Clinton's supporters claim that people that voted in those primaries will be disenfranchised if we don't seat delegates and I say voters that didn't head to the voting booths were also disenfranchised. So what do we do to keep everybody happy? We re vote(it cost money) or we seat delegates and split them half (somebody won't be happy).

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