Reply #62: Oh now I see your point. Hillary could have it both ways.

[pampango]

She could agree to no campaigning in Florida and Michigan and no delegates being awarded with the realization that the delegates would be awarded anyway. In this way she takes away Obama's campaigning ability (at which he has proven to be quite effective), while still ending up with the delegates resulting from the primaries.

I have often wondered what Hillary planned when she agreed to the party sanctions against those two primaries. Was she fully expecting that those two primaries would end up with delegates being awarded, despite her agreement that she didn't expect this? Or did she really plan her campaign without figuring on Michigan and Florida delegates and only change her mind after the first few primaries and caucuses?

You seem to argue that the former was the case and that she knew that the "no delegates" part of last year's agreement was unenforceable. She is indeed a shrewd campaigner.