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Oh, I think you're very wrong that (5.00 / 1) (#51)
by Cream City on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 11:21:54 PM EST
nothing can be done about this until August.

But let's leave it at that, to save you saying the same things yet again.  We'll both wait and see.

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Well the easiest way (5.00 / 1) (#59)
by flyerhawk on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 11:34:52 PM EST
to prove how wrong I am is to explain HOW I am wrong.

What is the mechanism that seats the MI and FL delegates before the convention without the approval of both candidates?  

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So many ways . . . (none / 0) (#68)
by Cream City on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 11:41:18 PM EST
DNC changes decision again, based on needing funds for the Denver convention -- see story today on big donors/Clinton backers coming down on Dean, et al. -- and/or super-delegates commit in sufficient numbers, and/or Harry Reid does whatever he says will be done to resolve this in backrooms by then, etc.

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It can't do that (5.00 / 1) (#79)
by flyerhawk on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 12:01:43 AM EST
the DNC can't change their minds.  Here are the rules

Section 20 Part D

Unresolved Challenges and Report to the Credentials Committee. The DNC Rules and Bylaws
Committee shall report its activities, together with all challenges and complaints, to the
Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention. In cases involving unresolved
challenges which are appealed to the Credentials Committee, the burden of proof shall rest with
the party presenting the challenge.

There is no mechanism for the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee, the guys who issued the punishment, to reverse it. So unless you are suggesting that the DNC will flagrantly ignore their own rules and simply decree that the state delegations be seated, there is no way it can be done.

The possibility of that happening is vanishingly small.  And if they were to try they would get sued in about 5 seconds.  

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Greta Interviews Hillary | 161 comments (161 topical)

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