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Dems Jockey on Florida and Michigan Votes

Posted May 22, 08 5:10 PM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – With primary voting in its final stretch, the long-simmering argument about outlaw Florida and Michigan balloting is heating up. Hillary Clinton's camp is still arguing that all delegates should be seated, while Barack Obama said seating half the Florida delegates would be “a very reasonable solution”—though he discounted the vote's legitimacy, calling it “essentially a referendum on name recognition.”

He said it was even harder to sanction the Michigan results (he was not on the ballot), while a Clintonite offered that most or all “uncommitted” votes could end up his column.  Still, one day after Clinton compared the fight to the civil-rights struggle, her rep was careful to say that Obama's victory would not be “counterfeit” or “tainted” if the results went uncounted.

Sources St. Petersburg Times, Talking Points Memo, Politico, Time

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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., walks to her motorcade on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 22, 2008.   (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Florida and Michigan   (Wikipedia composite)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 22, 2008.   (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Voters cast their ballots at a polling station to vote in Florida's presidential primary Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008, in Coral Gables, Fla. More than a million ballots have already been cast, either through...   (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Voters line up at a polling station in a fire station to vote in Florida's presidential primary Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008, in Coral Gables, Fla. More than a million ballots have already been cast, either...   (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Voters line up at a polling station to vote in Florida's presidential primary Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008 in Coral Gables, Fla.   (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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