Clinton backers urge superdelegates to push Mich., Fla. elections

[sabra]

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/04/02/clinton_backers_urge_superdelegates_to_push_mich_fla_elections/

BOSTON—Supporters of Hillary Clinton are urging the state's Democratic superdelegates to push for the votes in Michigan and Florida to count in the party's presidential nominating process.
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Senate President Therese Murray headlined the rally on the Statehouse steps Wednesday.

She said party leaders can't ignore the more than two million voters in the two states who cast ballots. She said the party should hold a full primary in Michigan and either seat the Florida delegates or hold a new primary there too.

The party stripped the states of their delegates to the national convention because they moved their primaries to January.

http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/bayh-superdelegates-should-wait-for-fla.-mich.-2008-04-02.html

Bayh: Superdelegates should wait for Fla., Mich.

Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), a high-profile supporter of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), said Wednesday that the controversy regarding the seating of Michigan’s and Florida’s delegates remains the “biggest impediment” to Democratic leaders’ pleas that superdelegates make their nomination preference known by July.

Bayh, speaking to reporters after a breakfast, argued that, if no solution is found for the Michigan-Florida dilemma, then superdelegates would not have all of the information they need to make a decision between Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.).

Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), has said in recent days that he wants those superdelegates who remain undecided to make their preference known before July in hopes of avoiding a bitter summer and a divided convention.

But Bayh said the more than 300 undecided superdelegates will not be in a position to make a sound decision — using the winner of the overall popular vote as a factor — if the two states “are still in limbo.”

[SoFlaJet]

1. she's such a friggin hypocrite

feigning concern about us Floridians-I don't even remember once the Clintons caring one iota when the 2000 fiasco was going on. One note TO the CC, don't worry about us we'll be out voting in force for the democrat in November-hopefully it's NOT you

[DJ13]

2. Dont disenfranchise Florida's voters!

Save that for the convention when we try to get the SD's to overturn the pledged delegates and total votes won so Clinton can be the nominee.

These people have no shame.

[Justitia]

3. By hook or by crook - whatever it takes....-eom