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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 01:32 PM
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OK no flames please, but does anyone have the numbers how the FL and MI delegates
would break and what those numbers look like when they are added to the popular vote totals?

please, just looking for numbers here, not attitude
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madfloridian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 01:35 PM
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1. I think Hillary would have gotten about 40 more.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 01:37 PM
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2. With popular vote it is only fair to add Florida. That cuts Obama's margin by about 300,000.
Michigan, now that it looks like a caucus, is hard to tell.
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AikidoSoul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 02:17 PM
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7. It would NOT be fair to allow FL delegates to count
unless they run another election. It's being debated but the state of FL doesn't want to pay for it.

Florida should pay for it because FL screwed up.

FL Dems ran early primaries despite the warnings from the DNC about the rules and penalties. Obama and other presidential candidates were not allowed to campaign in FL prior to the primary. This gave Mrs. Clinton a name-recognition advantage.

In Michigan, Obama wasn't even on the ballot.

The Florida Legislature Dems would like you to believe that the FL Legislature Republicans forced them into an early primary... but that is a total pile of crap. They wanted the early primary and played a deceptive game with the DNC to try to make it appear as if they were being forced to accept the terms

If you look at the vote and read the transcript this becomes very clear.
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 01:39 PM
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3. I just heard on the radio that it's increasingly likely that MI
will have a "fire barn caucus" in June.

I really think it would be most fair if both states did a redo under these circumstances.
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mohc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 01:39 PM
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4. Delegate counts
Florida:
Clinton 105
Obama 67
Edwards 13

Michigan:
Clinton 73
Uncommitted 55

Total:
Clinton 178
Obama 67
Uncommitted 55
Edwards 13
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mohc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 01:40 PM
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5. These were pledged delegates only btw
So it does not include superdelegates. In my opinion, revote or not, the superdelegates should not be seated. A revote would only redeem the pledged delegates.
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revolve Donating Member (255 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 02:06 PM
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6. Especially since Kwame is a superdelegate
And it was some of the superdelegates that got us into this in the first place
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