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Clinton Wins Big in Florida - Will it Matter? Will Mich. & Florida Delegates Be Seated?

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Posted: Wed Jan 30th, 2008 03:11 pm

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At issue are penalties the Democratic and Republican parties separately levied against Michigan and Florida for setting their presidential-primary dates earlier than the parties' rules allow. To avoid front-loading the process, both parties sought to allow just four regionally balanced states -- Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina -- to hold contests in January. Other states were restricted to voting no earlier than Feb. 5.

The Democratic Party stripped offenders of all delegates

"When you have record numbers of people turning out, they're sending the signal that this matters to them," said Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson. "Can we really envision a circumstance where we have a national convention and 48 state delegations are seated and two aren't?"

Many Democrats expected that ultimately the delegations from Michigan and Florida would be seated. ( In 1952, some say the turning point in the Republican convention was a vote to seat Robert Taft delegates, which he lost, and Gen. Eisenhower went on to win the nomination and the election.)

But few, if any, expected the bitter and close contest that has developed between Sens. Clinton and Obama.
Having split the early states -- with Sen. Clinton winning New Hampshire and Nevada, and Sen. Obama taking Iowa and South Carolina -- the two are embroiled in a state-by-state delegate hunt.

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