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Sen. Clinton pulls a fast one in Michigan and could take 70%...
According to this story from the DetNews - http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080424/OPINION01/804240315/1008
Hillary Clinton is going after the uncommitted delegate seats as well as claiming all of her own from the State. She used her Michigan Political Mafia (Granholm, Levin, Blanchard and the UAW) to steamroll the delegate election process.
Her next plan of attack is to end around the Rules Committee that will eventually decide how Michigan and Florida are seated to seize control and try to have both States seated.
We've read that Florida is selecting delegates as well, and I assume Clinton is working her magic down there as well. This is why she is staying in so long, and is using the popular vote as a distraction.
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If she's successful, I think it'll make it that much less likely that Michigan will get seated based off anything resembling that vote. It could also hurt her in the eyes of the unpledged delegates. This'll do her more harm than good, IMO.
April 24, 2008 5:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I disagree. I kind of see the writing on the wall now. Clinton won't be denied this nomination. She's gone into Bushville where a sense of reality is concerned. She is blind to the destructiveness of her actions.
I think she's going to get it, and it makes me sick.
April 24, 2008 5:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Add Hillary's pledge not to participate in MI to her long list of lies and broken promises.
April 24, 2008 5:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am not sure that I really think that it counts as "pulling a fast one" that her people knew the rules and acted accordingly to achieve her best interests. That said, my suspicions mirror Ben Hocking's here - I think that this will only make it harder for her campaign to win the argument to get any of them seated.
April 24, 2008 5:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think she pulled a fast anything. I am sure that stepping away from that process was a deliberate maneuver by the Obama campaign. Think about it, if they started to get involved in Michigan after the primary, it would give weight to Hillary's claim that it should count because his campaign actively sought delegates after the fact.
Also, what would he do anyway? He was not on the ballot.
April 24, 2008 6:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good points by all. If Obama was showing any interest in Michigan it would strengthen Clinton's claim that they should be counted and hurt his stance that Michigan's vote doesn't count. Hillary could be overplaying her hand again, because arguing that Michigan should be seated after securing 70% of the delegates could make her hard sell even harder.
Of course she'll argue that some of those "uncommitted" voters could have decided to support her and getting only a 3rd of the uncommitted votes(allowing for 1/3 to back Obama and 1/3rd to back Edwards) is probably under representing what she would have got.
April 24, 2008 6:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
How is this allowed by the DNC rules?
If somehow she does this end run, and theoretically gets the delegates, she'll go to court to keep them and won't end the race until she steals it.
Is this something to be concerned about?
April 24, 2008 6:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Michigan will not be seated. It will take the Credentials committee, if it get that far, for the delegation to be seated, unfortunately for Clinton that committee isn't stacked in her favor.
The other thing that is foolish for Clinton to do is add to the delegate requirement. She is already behind with the number set at 2025. If Florida or Michigan are added the number increases. It's 2205 if both are seated. With her behind by 150 or so -- and that number likely to increase through the last of the primaries, even adding the two isn't going to bring her closer.
Pennsylvania -- the last great delegate haul for her netted her what -- 6 delegates??? Well, WHOOP-DEE-DOO!
She can't win. It's a chess match and it's over.
April 24, 2008 6:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
None of this matters. If she hangs around all summer pretending to still have a chance after the superdelegates have made Obama the presumptive nominee, she'll be driven from the party. Michigan will probably be seated, but won't [articipate in the nomination process, same as FL. The courts have nothing to do with it. They've already thrown out the FL case. They don't intervene in this shit. This just makes her look like an asshole. Like everything she does.
April 24, 2008 6:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Every time this FL and MI issue goes away, it comes back. Granted, it's the Clintons that bring it back and everything they touch turns to fraud, but fraud can win elections.
April 24, 2008 7:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
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