Florida And Michigan Demand Delegates Be Seated
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Democrats, Florida, MichiganGood luck with that…
Gov. Charlie Crist (R-FL) seems to be backing away from a trial balloon that he would support a new Democratic primary in Florida — and he’s joined by Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) in standing firm on the January rogue primaries.Crist and Granholm have put out a joint statement demanding that the Democratic and Republican National Committees seat delegates for both states. All of the Democratic delegates and half the Republican delegates were stripped from those states, because they broke the national parties’ established rules for when the contests should have been held.
“The right to vote is at the very foundation of our democracy,” the statement says. “This primary season, voters have turned out in record numbers to exercise that right, and it is reprehensible that anyone would seek to silence the voices of 5,163,271 Americans.”
The best these states can hope for is a do over, but that doesn’t seem likely either. Still, these politicos have to speak up for their voters, so I understand why they’re calling for this.
Question: could NOT seating these delegates hurt the Dems chances of winning theses states come November?
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March 5th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Im not a huge hillary fan but as a michigan democratic voter, I will not vote for Obama even if he wins the nomination. His message to michigan voters is loud and clear, “bleep you michigan, your votes dont matter” and he wont get our votes in November. He made the personal choice to support punishing and silencing the 5 million voters of michigan and florida, it will definetely cost him in the general election.
March 6th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
They want an electoral mulligan. The big complaint I keep hearing it that the people of FL and MI deserve to have their voices heard. Damn straight they do AND they actually have. The democratic voters in both those states elected people to represent their interests who saw fit to ignore the rules of the national nominating process. The voters of FL and MI should have their say. They did and will. The next time they vote they ought to vote for people other than the knuckleheads that decided to disenfranchise them. 48 out of 50 states managed to get it right.