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...It’s not a decision House Masters would make,” he said. “There was no vote...
...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 they hold-that she is the more electable Democrat and the one who should get the nomination...
...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...
...they now stand, the results in those states were far from a perfect representation of popular will-a point the Obama campaign has made repeatedly. 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...
Michigan, which has 156 delegates, held its primary on January 15, and Clinton won handily, with 55% of the vote. But all the other major Democratic contenders had taken their name off the Michigan ballot. ("Uncommitted" came in second, with 40%.) And Florida, which has 210 delegates, voted on Jan. 29. All of the Democratic contenders were on the ballot, but had pledged not to campaign there. Clinton won with 50% of the vote, well ahead of Obama...