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...after Hillary Clinton's victories over Barack Obama in the Ohio and Texas primaries made the race even tighter, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, a Republican, and Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat, called upon the party to seat their delegates, saying to do otherwise would silence "the voices of 5,163,271 Americans" who voted in their primaries. In Florida, for instance, 1.75 million Democrats voted, which was the best Democratic turnout in state history. That sentiment has been echoed by Clinton supporter Florida senator Bill Nelson as well as the Clinton campaign itself, which won both crucial swing states...
...looking increasingly likely that Democrats in Florida and Michigan are going to have a do-over of their primaries, so that their 366 delegates - who could be enough to tip the nomination one way or the other - can be seated at this summer's Democratic National Convention in Denver. The big questions now: How would they do it, and who would...
Still, as the Obama campaign has never tired of pointing out, all of the Democratic candidates had refused to campaign in either state. And in Michigan, Barack Obama's name wasn't even on the ballot (40% of the vote there, in fact, went to "uncommitted.") Many voters who might have gone to the polls say they didn't. For that reason, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and its embattled head, Howard Dean, keep stressing that it wouldn't be fair now to suddenly change the rules that were agreed to a year ago. (The Clinton camp, however, insists...
...time, it looked like the whole thing would be academic. Both Michigan and Florida are crucial swing states, and neither party was willing to alienate the electorate come November. Surely, everyone thought, the party would have a nominee long before the convention, and the two states would then be allowed to go ahead and send their delegates anyway...
That indeed is what is likely to happen with the Republicans, who now have a nominee in John McCain. But with the Democratic race dragging on into at least April, the fate of that party's Florida and Michigan delegates is looking more and more important in determining who the nominee will...