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Solution to the Michigan/Florida delegate problem?

By R. Neal
Created 05/09/2008 - 12:01

GoldnI endorses [1] an idea proposed by MSNBC's Chuck Todd on how to deal with the Michigan and Florida Democratic Primary delegates.

The idea is to seat the elected delegates but not the superdelegates, thus penalizing party leadership in those states (who some could argue allowed this to happen) but not the voters. That almost sounds like a reasonable solution.

GoldnI notes the problem with Michigan, however, where Obama wasn't on the ballot. If I recall correctly, the choices were Clinton v. "uncommitted." The simple solution would be to allow the Michigan "uncommitted" delegates to vote for whoever they want.


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