05-30-2008, 08:16 AM
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Quoting from mydd.com, a website that supported Clinton
http://www.mydd.com/
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->A Democratic Party rules committee has the authority to seat some delegates from Michigan and Florida but not fully restore the two states as Hillary Rodham Clinton wants, according to party lawyers.
<b>Democratic National Committee rules require that the two states lose at least half of their convention delegates for holding elections too early, the party's legal experts wrote in a 38-page memo.</b>
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if Florida delegates are seated in their entirety, but only have their vote counted as a .5, then <b>Clinton will net approximately 19 delegates out of the state. But if the delegation is cut in half, that's done in every congressional district as well as statewide, then suddenly Clinton's advantage is only a net of six</b>
whether Clinton nets 6, 19 or the full 38 FL delegates she hopes to get out of Saturday's meeting, she still won't catch Obama in the overall delegate count. <b>As DemConWatch's handy chart demonstrates, even with FL & MI fully counted, Obama still leads Clinton by more than 100. </b>
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Quoting from mydd.com, a website that supported Clinton
http://www.mydd.com/
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->A Democratic Party rules committee has the authority to seat some delegates from Michigan and Florida but not fully restore the two states as Hillary Rodham Clinton wants, according to party lawyers.
<b>Democratic National Committee rules require that the two states lose at least half of their convention delegates for holding elections too early, the party's legal experts wrote in a 38-page memo.</b>
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if Florida delegates are seated in their entirety, but only have their vote counted as a .5, then <b>Clinton will net approximately 19 delegates out of the state. But if the delegation is cut in half, that's done in every congressional district as well as statewide, then suddenly Clinton's advantage is only a net of six</b>
whether Clinton nets 6, 19 or the full 38 FL delegates she hopes to get out of Saturday's meeting, she still won't catch Obama in the overall delegate count. <b>As DemConWatch's handy chart demonstrates, even with FL & MI fully counted, Obama still leads Clinton by more than 100. </b>
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