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Jessica A. Holler, a sophomore at the University of Michigan, said she applied to transfer to Harvard partly because the College’s new middle-class financial aid initiative was not in place when she applied to college as a high school senior...
Hillary Clinton's already uphill path to the Democratic presidential nomination has gotten quite a bit steeper. On Thursday, the Michigan state Senate adjourned without taking action on a do-over of that state's Democratic primary, following the lead of Florida, which ruled out another primary earlier this week. That leaves it up to the party and the candidates to come up with a plan for seating both crucial state's delegates at the national convention this summer in Denver. But as Clinton and Barack Obama battle it out in the final stretch of the nomination race, there...
Even before the Michigan and Florida decisions, Clinton's chances of overtaking Obama's lead in pledged delegates-those won as a result of primaries and caucuses-had looked dim. (He's currently about 150 delegates ahead, with only 10 contests left to go.) But her campaign had hoped that, had Michigan and Florida held new primaries, she would be able to take the lead from Obama in the popular vote total. And with that, she planned to make the argument to the party's "superdelegates"-the elected and party officials who get delegate slots by virtue of the positions...
...revote in Florida and Michigan would almost certainly have strengthened that argument. If it happens, "I have no doubt at the end, when Puerto Rico votes [in June], Senator Clinton would have the most popular votes, and that could have a huge impact on the superdelegates," said Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, a Clinton supporter who has helped raise more than $8 million in pledges of private funds to finance new contests. And if Clinton could pull ahead in the popular vote, he added, it would undercut "the whole raison d'etre of the Obama argument: How do you turn your...
...Both states, looking for more influence in the nominating process, held their votes before the Feb. 5 date allowed under party rules, despite a declaration by the Democratic National Committee that it would take away their convention delegates if they did so. (The Republican Party also penalized Florida and Michigan, but took away only half their delegates.) As a result of the DNC's warning, many Democrats chose not to vote-or to cast their ballots in the Republican race...