Florida, Michigan delegates cannot save Clinton

[cali]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sorry, Sen. Clinton. Michigan and Florida can't save your campaign. Interviews with those considering how to handle the two states' banished convention delegates found little interest in the former first lady's best-case scenario.

Her position, part of a formidable comeback challenge, is that all the delegates be seated in accordance with their disputed primaries.

And even if they were, it wouldn't erase Barack Obama's growing lead in delegates over Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The Democratic Party's Rules and Bylaws Committee, a 30-member panel charged with interpreting and enforcing party rules, is scheduled to meet May 31 to consider how to handle Michigan and Florida's 366 delegates.

Last year, the panel imposed the harshest punishment it could render against the two states after they scheduled primaries in January, even though they were instructed not to vote until Feb. 5 or later. Michigan and Florida lost all their delegates to the national convention, and all the Democratic candidates agreed not to campaign in the two states, stripping them of all the influence they were trying to build by voting early.

But now there is agreement on all sides that at least some of the delegates should be restored in a gesture of party unity and respect to voters in two general election battlegrounds.

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[Window]

1. K/R.

:kick:

[Major Hogwash]

2. Even though it's early, give it time to sink in today.

There's no more air in her balloons.

[cali]

3. I know, but some Hill supporters are still clinging to the vain hope

that MI and FL will magically change everything. This article spells out that it won't.

[tekisui]

4. And neither will her second place finish in Popular votes,

nor her getting significantly less than 2025 Delegates. She has no arguments left to present to the remaining SD's or to keep hers form switching.

Time to fight Grampy McDubya.

[cali]

5. Fighting McCain will be a lot easier when Hill drops out

in a couple of weeks and endorses Obama.

[Alexander]

6. K&R

[cali]

7. kick for reality.