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Candidates Reject Fla. Delegate Compromise

Posted Mar 20, 08 12:19 PM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – The Obama and Clinton campaigns rejected a compromise plan for seating Florida’s delegates—half according to its illicit January primary and the other half based on national vote totals or delegate counts. Sunshine State lawmakers are demanding their state get some sort of say in the tight Dem race; one suggested the candidates “get in a room together and work this thing out.”

The proposal would have netted Clinton 63 delegates and Obama 42, the Tallahassee Democrat reports. Both candidates say they’d love to find a fair solution, the Miami Herald adds, but the architect of the failed compromise painted a stark situation. With the DNC refusing to act, and “not much more that Florida can do,” the ball is now in the candidates' court.

Sources: Tallahassee Democrat, Talking Points Memo, Miami Herald

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Supporters of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., cheer as they wait for her arrival in Davie, Fla., Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008.   (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Students attending a campaign stop for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., at Florida A&M University show their support Friday, Aug. 24, 2007, in Tallahassee, Fla.   (AP Photo/Phil Coale)
Voters line up at a polling station to vote in Florida's presidential primary in this Jan. 29, 2008 file photo in Coral Gables, Fla.   (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
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