The Liberal Avenger
You got that right, Al!
When the state legislatures in Michigan and Florida decided to hold early primaries, they violated the rules of both the Republican and Democratic parties. In order to preserve the integrity of the process, those states had to be penalized. The Republicans decided to strip both states of half of their delegates, while the Democrats decided not to award any delegates to Michigan and Florida.
That didn’t sit well with the Clinton campaign, because Clinton won both states by a wide margin. She won because every other major candidate had withdrawn their names from the ballot, and because her enormous advantage in name recognition was a tremendous advantage, especially because the candidates agreed not to campaign in Michigan and Florida.
On one hand Clinton had agreed, along with all of the other candidates, that the Michigan and Florida delegations would not be seated at the convention. On the other hand, it doesn’t make sense to ignore the fact Clinton is the most popular democrat in those states, albeit by a much smaller margin than the primary votes indicated. So today, party officials met to work out a compromise.
What they came up with ... more »
