AP: Michigan Democrats Allocate Delegates updated
There’s no way that Michigan was going to do anything else. Via a TM.com reader, below is a report from the Associated Press. I’m trying to verify it (see update below):
Hillary Rodham Clinton will get the lion’s share of Democratic national convention
delegates after winning the state’s Jan. 15 presidential primary.The Michigan Democratic Party said Friday that Clinton will get 73
pledged delegates after winning 55 percent of the statewide vote.Another 55 delegates will be uncommitted since 40 percent of the
Democratic voters chose uncommitted. Because Barack Obama and John
Edwards had taken their names off the ballot, many of their supporters voted
for uncommitted.The state also has 28 superdelegates, many of whom remain uncommitted,
for a total of 156.Michigan has been stripped of its delegates for moving up its primary, but
party leaders expect the delegates to be seated at the national convention.
Again, stripping Michigan and Florida was simply silly, because we cannot win
in November if we turn our backs on those two states, especially just to suck up
to Iowa and New Hampshire. On another note, we need to get rid of caucuses altogether. They’re
undemocratic. Few people can take off of work to sit around at a caucus all day. In the modern era, people are just too busy and working too hard to have time to do this. It makes participating in the political process more difficult. That’s bad for our republic.
To add, “allocating” isn’t the same as seating the delegates, which is why the title is as I posted. Seating the delegates of Michigan and Florida has yet to be worked out. But Clinton didn’t even have a delegate number until this AP report came out, which I’m still trying to verify (see update below). Just guessing here, but I imagine McCain solidifying the nomination has many establishment Democrats worrying about how close everything is on our side and trying to get some closure where it can be provided.
UPDATE: Michigan Democratic Party verifies the AP story.
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