Now that Barack Obama has essentially won the Dem nomination, looks like there may be a compromise in the works that will allow the Florida and Michigan votes to “count”.
By count, the Dems mean that the primary can not possibly be influenced one way or the other by seating the Florida and Michigan delegates at this time, so let’s include them (or at least some of them) now that all is said and done so that it won’t appear as if we did not include them in the selection of a Dem candidate even though we didn’t actually include them.
Seems somewhat patronizing, no? Awww… poor Florida… poor Michigan… no seats at the convention. As soon as we know who all the other states want, we’ll let you join the party, as long as you promise to not do anything to change the results.
As Obama’s campaign manager put it:
From AP- “We don’t think it’s fair to seat them fully because we both lived by these rules and pledged to abide by them,” Plouffe said. “We’re willing to give some delegates here, which I don’t think should be sneezed at.”
Yeah… including Florida and Michigan after they so blatantly broke the rules would be totally unfair. Better to only include 48 states, plus a few other US possessions who’s vote doesn’t even count in the general election. It’s not like these are the only 2 states excluded after all, what about the other 7 states that Obama visited.
They should have resolved this weeks ago when the votes really counted. Now there is no way anyone with half a brain (that clearly excludes the DNC chair) will believe that Florida and Michigan really has any say in who the Dem nominee will be come November…
By the way… the Dems never wanted ALL the Florida votes counted in 2000 either, otherwise they would have called for a statewide recount instead of selective recounting in areas that would presumably be advantageous to Al Gore. If this doesn’t prove to you that all the “every vote must count” propaganda was just a bunch of malarkey 8 years ago, perhaps you deserve the 2nd class status the Dems have relegated you to this year.
Truth is, Florida and Michigan deserve to be counted… but it may be too little, too late to matter.
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