Rules and Bylaws Committee members show little interest in fully rescinding ruling

[Boz]

Hillary Rodham Clinton's faltering Democratic presidential bid is unlikely to be saved, even if she secures delegates that were stripped from Michigan and Florida as punishment for holding their nomination contests early.

The former first lady, who has struggled to revive her once powerful candidacy, won the races in both states, even though neither she nor Barack Obama campaigned there. Obama even had his name pulled from Michigan's ballot.

With little chance of eroding Obama's lead in the overall delegate count based on the five remaining primaries, Clinton has lobbied hard to have the two states' votes counted, hoping that securing the majority of the 366 delegates at stake there would put her back in the running.

But interviews with those considering how to handle the two states' banished convention delegates found little interest in Clinton's best-case scenario.

The Associated Press interviewed a third of the panel members and several other Democrats involved in the negotiations and found widespread agreement that the states must be punished for stepping out of line. If not, the members say, other states will do the same thing in four years, at the next election cycle.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/16/america/NA-POL-US-Primary-Scramble.php?

[K Gardner]

1. K&R

[GarbagemanLB]

2. Good. I am sick of these attempts at changing the rules mid-game. EVERYONE KNEW THE RULES

COMING INTO THE PRIMARY SEASON.

[Blue_Roses]

3. what a mess

:crazy: