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  • May 2008

    • Dems Seat Fla., Mich. Delegates as Half-Votes

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 31, 08 6:45 PM CDT

      Dems Seat Fla., Mich. Delegates as Half-Votes

      Democratic officials voted today to seat Florida and Michigan primary delegates as half-votes, the AP reports. At a boisterous hearing, delayed by nearly 3 hours of private talks, the party seated Florida delegates based on the state's primary vote, with 105 for Clinton and 67 for Obama. The Michigan deal was more complex, giving 69 of the half-votes to Clinton and 59 to Obama. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Florida primary  • Democratic Party  • Michigan primary  • delegates

    • Democrats to Settle Score on Fla., Mich.

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 31, 08 7:33 AM CDT

      Democrats to Settle Score on Fla., Mich.

      The Democratic rules committee has begun a daylong meeting to try to settle the dispute over the seating of Florida and Michigan’s delegates, chosen in violation of party rules. Many Dems expect half the delegations from each state to be seated, the Washington Post reports, which would do little to alter the delegate math that underscores Barack Obama’s virtual lock on the nomination. More »

    • Top Democrats Say Race Ends Next Week

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 29, 08 9:24 PM CDT

      Top Democrats Say Race Ends Next Week

      Democratic leaders say the primary fight will be over next week, making it all but certain that Barack Obama will be the nominee. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and party chief Howard Dean say they will press uncommitted superdelegates to make up their minds by midweek, after Tuesday's final primaries, the New York Times reports. “By this time next week, it will all be over, give or take a day," said Reid. More »

    • Mich.-Fla. Plan, Net Gain of 19 for Clinton, Picking Up Steam

      newser  |  Talking Points Memo  |  May 29, 08 5:10 PM CDT

      Mich.-Fla. Plan, Net Gain of 19 for Clinton, Picking Up Steam

      A plan to give each of Florida’s Democratic delegates a half-vote and to split Michigan’s halved delegates evenly between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is “gaining some traction in the right circles” ahead of Saturday’s DNC meeting, Talking Points Memo discerns from an MSNBC report. The compromise would net Clinton 19 delegates and set a new “magic number” of 2,118. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Florida primary  • Michigan primary  • DNC

    • DNC Lawyers: Only Half of Fla., Mich. Can Be Seated Saturday

      newser  |  Talking Points Memo  |  May 28, 08 2:06 PM CDT

      DNC Lawyers: Only Half of Fla., Mich. Can Be Seated Saturday

      By Democratic Party rules, the long-awaited committee meeting on Saturday is authorized to re-seat no more than half of the outlaw delegations from Florida and Michigan, party lawyers have advised in a new memo. The Rules and Bylaws Committee is required to maintain a penalty for the leapfrogging states that cuts their original delegate counts at least by half, the AP reports. More »

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      Florida primary  • Michigan primary  • DNC  • Democratic Rules and Bylaws Committee

    • Clinton's Delegate Math Goes From Fuzzy to Demeaning

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 28, 08 1:37 PM CDT

      Clinton's Delegate Math Goes From Fuzzy to Demeaning

      Attempts by Hillary Clinton supporters to link the push to seat the Florida and Michigan delegations with fights for suffrage and other freedoms the world over is "an equation that makes a mockery of democracy and feminism,” Harold Meyerson writes in the Washington Post —particularly since Clinton herself supported sanctions on the states until it became politically urgent to shift course. More »

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      Hillary Clinton  • Florida primary  • Michigan primary  • delegates  • feminism  • DNC  • barred delegates

    • Bill Decries 'Cover-Up' By Dem Brass

      newser  |  CNN  |  May 27, 08 2:14 PM CDT

      Bill Decries 'Cover-Up' By Dem Brass

      Bill Clinton claimed this weekend that there is a conspiracy to bury polls showing Hillary to be the better Democratic general-election candidate against John McCain, adding, “I have never seen a candidate treated so disrespectfully just for running.” “Oh, this is so terrible," said the former president of conspirators' reaction to positive Hillary Clinton tidings, "we have to cover this up.” More »

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      Hillary Clinton  • Bill Clinton  • Democratic nomination  • superdelegates  • Florida primary  • Michigan primary  • conspiracy

    • Bush v. Gore 's Lessons for 2008

      newser  |  New Yorker  |  May 26, 08 3:30 PM CDT

      Bush v. Gore 's Lessons for 2008

      Memorial Day dates from the Civil War, but this week, thanks to HBO’s Recount, a different internecine conflict will be in the air: the 2000 election. The generally factual portrayal of the Florida snafu gets Hendrik Hertzberg of the New Yorker thinking about another hairsplitting debate over vote counting. Perhaps inevitably, he zeros in on Hillary Clinton and her claims that she's winning the popular vote over Barack Obama. More »

    • Dems Jockey on Florida and Michigan Votes

      newser  |  St. Petersburg Times  |  May 22, 08 5:10 PM CDT

      Dems Jockey on Florida and Michigan Votes

      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.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Florida primary  • Michigan primary

    • No, She Isn’t Winning the Popular Vote

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  May 22, 08 12:13 PM CDT

      No, She Isn&rsquo;t Winning the Popular Vote

      Hillary Clinton’s insistence that she’s winning the popular vote not only promotes a meaningless rubric in a delegate contest, but it's also a dangerous claim—and a false one, Jonathan Alter writes in Newsweek . Not only is Clinton trampling on old sore spots (think Al Gore in 2000), but she’s also in the wrong, Alter asserts, then runs through the math. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Democratic nomination  • Florida primary  • Michigan primary  • popular vote  • caucuses

    • Clinton Ready to Take It to Convention

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 22, 08 8:39 AM CDT

      Clinton Ready to Take It to Convention

      A defiant Hillary Clinton signaled yesterday that she might take the nomination fight all the way to the convention, the New York Times reports, again emphasizing the importance of seating Florida and Michigan delegates in a swing through the Sunshine State. Those delegates still wouldn't erase Barack Obama's lead, but some insiders believe she's trying to a make a symbolic point about the nomination process. More »

    • Maybe She's Looking to Bargain

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 9, 08 4:58 PM CDT

      Maybe She's Looking to Bargain

      Hillary Clinton’s tactics have been especially divisive in the last few days, and Katharine Q. Seelye writes in the Times that maybe she’s “veering into dangerous territory” to force her rival to bargain. Some suggestions on what she wants from him: More »

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      Hillary Clinton  • Florida primary  • Michigan primary  • debt

    • Michigan Settles on Delegate Plan

      newser  |  Detroit News  |  May 8, 08 8:33 AM CDT

      Michigan Settles on Delegate Plan

      The Michigan Democratic Party agreed yesterday to a plan to split its delegates to the August convention: The state wants to award 69 to Hillary Clinton and 59 to Barack Obama, who did not appear on the ballot in the primary, which was voided because it broke party rules. Michigan would also seat 29 superdelegates, reports the Detroit News . More »

    • Downtrodden Clinton Aides Grasp at Fla., Mich. Straws

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 7, 08 2:11 PM CDT

      Downtrodden Clinton Aides Grasp at Fla., Mich. Straws

      Last night’s primary disappointments have Hillary Clinton's aides skeptical about their candidate’s chances, the Washington Post reports. Advisers say their only hope is a last-ditch push to include results from Florida and Michigan. “Absent some sort of miracle on May 31st, it’s going to be tough for us,” said one senior official. “We lost this thing in February.” More »

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      Hillary Clinton  • Clinton 2008  • Florida primary  • Michigan primary  • Indiana primary  • delegate count

    • Delegate Calculus Blurs Big Picture

      newser  |  Washington Times  |  May 6, 08 3:00 PM CDT

      Delegate Calculus Blurs Big Picture

      The Clinton campaign is looking past 2,025—the current delegate threshold for clinching the nomination—and focusing on 2,208, the magic number if the party seats Michigan and Florida delegates, the Washington Times reports. “That’s what we believe is the standard for deciding this,” says a top strategist. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Florida primary  • Michigan primary  • DNC  • convention delegates

  • April 2008

    • Hillary Renews Call for State Re-Votes

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Apr 5, 08 8:24 PM CDT

      Hillary Renews Call for State Re-Votes

      Stumping in Oregon today, Hillary Clinton kept up her fight to recognize Florida and Michigan primary results, saying the votes had been “officially tallied,” the AP reports. “The question is whether those 2.3 million Democrats will be honored.” Meanwhile Barack Obama’s camp, which has offered to evenly split the disputed delegates, reminded reporters that Clinton once said the contests “didn’t count for anything.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • election 2008  • Florida primary  • Michigan primary  • Democratic National Committee  • DNC

  • March 2008

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