Accord, furor over Michigan and Florida delegates
By Joseph Williams and Bryan Bender | Sunday, June 1, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…he Democratic Party yesterday reinstated the delegates from disputed presidential primaries in Michigan and Florida but with only half-votes, a compromise that brought Barack Obama closer to the presidential nomination but left the party facing the prospect of further internal conflict.
The Obama campaign applauded the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee’s handling of the emotion-charged disputes in an often-raucous televised meeting in a Washington hotel. But the committee’s decision on the Michigan primary, which Clinton won in January by a wide margin after other contenders took their names off the ballot, left Clinton’s supporters fuming and threatening to take the fight to the party’s nominating convention in Denver in August….”…BS
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/01/accord_furor_over_mich_fla_delegates?mode=PF
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