Florida and Michigan

Democratic party officials said a party committee agreed Saturday on a compromise to seat Michigan and Florida delegates with half-votes after Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton failed to get enough support to force their positions through.

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Clinton's camp insisted Obama shouldn't get any pledged delegates in Michigan since he chose not to put his name on the ballot, and she should get 73 pledged delegates with 55 uncommitted. Obama's team insisted the only fair solution was to split the pledged delegates in half between the two campaigns, with 64 each.

The committee agreed on a compromise offered by the Michigan Democratic Party that would split the difference, allowing Clinton to take 69 delegates and Obama 59. Each delegate would get half a vote at the convention in Denver later this summer, according to the deal.

They also agreed to seat the Florida delegation based on the outcome of the January primary, with 105 pledged delegates for Clinton and 67 for Obama, but with each delegate getting half a vote as a penalty.

  chron.com

There's a lot wrong with this. The Democratic Party rules were set. Michigan and Florida and all the Democratic candidates knew them, and they knew the consequences for breaking them - no delegates would be seated.

Obama wasn't on the Michigan ballot because of the rules and the breaking of them. Had he known the rules would change and those delegates would be seated, he would have been on the ballot. However, Obama was against levying the consequences and Hillary was for it.

How many people decided to skip the primaries in those states because there would be no delegates come out of them? How many of them would have voted for Obama? If the delegate votes would have favored Obama, this wouldn't be happening. It's lousy politics to change the rule now, after the fact, for Hillary because she needs votes.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.