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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SeachRE who wrote (125273)	5/30/2008 2:17:36 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 173976

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To: SeachRE who wrote (125273)	5/30/2008 5:09:37 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Clinton Camp’s Argument: No Michigan Delegates for You By Katharine Q. Seelye Updated Senator Hillary Clinton’s campaign says that the Democratic party cannot award any of the “uncommitted” delegates from Michigan to any specific candidate, setting up a potentially major battle with the campaign of Senator Barack Obama. At issue are the results of the Michigan primary, in which 55 percent of voters voted for Mrs. Clinton while about 40 percent of voters cast their ballots for “uncommitted.” Mr. Obama and most other Democrats had taken themselves off the ballot. A proposal has been floating in advance of a party rules committee meeting tomorrow that would award all or a portion of those “uncommitted” Michigan delegates to Mr. Obama. But the Clinton campaign intends to argue that Mr. Obama should receive zero delegates from Michigan because those delegates awarded to “uncommitted” have to go to the convention uncommitted. “It’s impossible to discern the mind of each of the 238,000 people who voted for ‘uncommitted,’” Mr. Ickes said. He said the Clinton campaign’s view is that the 55 delegates representing ‘uncommitted’ “can support whomever they want but they must remain uncommitted and be certified to the D.N.C. as uncommitted.” He said that 36 of those delegates have been chosen so far. He said that neither the Democratic National Committee nor the rules committee had the jurisdiction or the power to “take those uncommitted delegates and award them to Senator Obama” any more than it had the power to take the 73 delegates who were awarded to Mrs. Clinton and give them to another candidate.