So the credentials committee at the convention has 25 members appointed by Howard Dean and 3 apiece from each state delelgation appointed by who won the state vote....Obama has won more states than she has...The Credentials Committee will not seat the Florida delegation if it gives Hillary the nomination.  Even so there could be a pro Hillary Minority report out of the committee to go to the floor of the Convention.  He leads in pledged delelgates there....She loses.

I must agree with BTD the only hope she had for a win ....and a lelgitimate win was to revote in Florida.

Michigan voting and Florida not voting means her popular vote margin from Florida could be nearly erased....There is nothing good about this at all.

She may be right about seating them...but that doesn't matter.

For Hillary, I believe this development makes her contest to be viewed as the legitimate nominee impossible. She will not be viewed as the popular vote winner now. She can not claim the will of the people.

She can now only hope to overturn the will of the people.

I will not sign up for that myself.

If this is not reversed, I believe Hillary should cut a deal now, drop out and accept the VP slot, for the good of the Party.

I wrote back, no money from me until you seat Florida and Michigan, and until you and Brazile stop trying to strong-arm Obama into the nomination.

Democratic elected officials failed the people of Florida in a horrific way by failing to stand up to this action, paper-trail item or no paper-trail item.  They also failed to plan for the contingency that the DNC actually meant what they said.  The people of Florida should be very upset with these people, especially since the party rules seem to require that the Florida superdelegates still get a vote even as they failed to secure one for the people they represent.

Now that the state has decided that it will not hold a legitimate primary contest, a decision must be made to either seat an honorary Florida delegation, one which will not impact the results from the states which ran legitimate primary contests, or to let the Florida delegation stay home.

Seating even a single delegate based on the illegitimate January 29th contest would be an absolute travesty, and ensure that in 2012, we'll see several big states voting prior to Super Tuesday, and destroying the notion that a presidential candidate doesn't need a 200 million dollar warchest and national popularity before running.  For the good of the primary process, the illegitimate January 29th results cannot be allowed to stand.

This is good for Hillary as far as I can see. Obama will not be legitimate, you can't take back the votes. A revote doesn't account for the original vote. I don't get the logic of most posters here.

According to the statement Floridians want ir original vote to count. It's their words that matter, not anyone elses, because it was their vote.

And No I don't think she should accept or push for VP. What's the incentive for her to be VP?

I'm sure Ms. Thurman will now put much more energy into justifying her decision than she ever did in coming up with it.

Scorched earth campaigns?  We just bombed FL off the map.

I find it hard to believe that Obama supporters, with FL gone, will not have at least uneasy thoughts about the legitimacy of Obama's nomination.  Not that that means Clinton's is more legitimate, but if you can only win with 49 states in our wacky system, we have a problem on our hands.  I guess depending on how the campaigns handle it, FL could still be in play.

I e-mailed it to all the powers that be at all the MSM outlets and still have never heard a word about it.  I sent them the reporter's phone number and his e-mail address.  I sent copies of the article and all the responses from my blog.

http://www.seatourdelegates.com/

I have decided to vote for whoever comes up with the best ideas on how to fix the Democratic Primary process. This has been a cl*sterf*ck from the start.

Who won?  Hannity and Colmes

TVNewser

We can only speculate why -- on a Friday night -- that Hannity had nearly double O'Reilly's ratings while Countdown and Cooper remained unchanged.

Michigan state Senator Cameron Brown (R - Fawn River Township) released a statement today expressing his skepticism at the possible re-vote for the Michigan Democratic Presidential Preference Primary.

"Holding a second primary would tell many Michigan residents who participated in the Democratic primary that their votes meant nothing," Brown continued. "To do so will ensure that Michiganders participating in elections from this point forward will forever be uncertain as to whether their votes will later be discarded."

In recent days, leaders of the Michigan Democratic Party have attempted to organize a primary re-vote that is consistent with the delegate selection rules for the Democratic Party of the United States.  The Rules & Bylaws Committee of the Democratic National Committee, voted to strip Michigan of its delegates to the Democratic Party's presidential nominating convention after  the panel found the state's Democrats to be in violation of the rules allowing Iowa and New Hampshire to go first.

Sen. Brown, who heads a sub-committee that any re-vote legislation would have to clear before becoming law, also spoke against a privately-funded re-vote.

"A primary funded by special interests, wealthy Democratic donors, or corporations would still require a massive time commitment from our state election officials and county, city and township clerks," Brown said.  "They ran a successful primary under intense time constraints in January, and should not be required to do so again."