I know that I've read about this idea. But I'm still missing how this works...

Let it be written, that the two biggest phonies you will have seen in this election cycle are Kid Oakland and There Is NO Spoon.

He wants, at least, to taint any Florida corrective vote and preferably to prevent voting in Florida altogether. Having done the math he feels he can defeat a credentials fight on the floor. So if the correction is allowed there wouldn't be a credentials fight and that means do everything to prevent a corrective action.

He wants to prevent any corrective action in Michigan and actually deny seating the delegation; the effect of an arbitrary 50/50 split.

Talk about damaging the party.  Any superdelegate who votes for this guy should be drummed out of the party.

If the party hierarchy stands around with their fingers up their arse and allows this answers the question about why we've lost so many elections we should have won.

Is anyone foolish enough to trust this guy with the executive power of the Presidency?

I will not vote for Obama under any circumstances. NONE.

So he sits there and raises one concern after another--security, fraud, the DoJ has to approve it, etc. etc. while kicking the ball over to the DNC. Meanwhile Clinton and her folks are on record as supporting a revote, and even offering to raise money for it.

If he was really in favor of revoting, he'd make a public statement saying so, not this painful hemming and hawing and equivocating.

It's just like the pledge about public financing. Once it went from a political advantage to a handicap, it went out the window.

Clinton has very simply stated her position - there are only two choices.  Seat the delegates as is or have a revote.  

Are they TRYING to make caucuses look good by comparison or something ????????  

If Obama keeps up with this, I really won't know what to think.  This is an aggressive move to use the primary process to anoint yourself.  This is a party destroyer.  I'm almost never sympathetic to people who will flee the Democratic Party as a punishment to it, but this is an incident that, depending upon how it plays out, makes me think Dem Party ideas could be better served elsewhere.  And I don't live in MI or FL.  

i agree with team clinton's aversion to holding a caucus to decide as much as i appreciate team obama's suspicion of a mail in vote without registered signatures.  they are both thinking of their self interest as it should be.  what's the rumpus?

most likely, neither campaign will agree to a process and that will be the fault of michigan and florida, not either candidate.

this is a sad statement on the party leadership that we are playing florida voting games again.  dean could have easily taken the approach the refuglicans applied.  count the votes, diminish the delegates and move on.

The Obama campaign, however, said Hunter's position doesn't represent the campaign's, though they have expressed similar concerns about mail-in ballots.

"Anything other than the fact that we think that the DNC and states ought to work this out, but we'll play by the rules, is not an expression of the position of the campaign," said spokesman Bill Burton.

He knows he will LOSE the lead if the MI and FL delegates are seated. Win at all costs, eh?

Remember, Obama is on record accepting the DNC's decision.

His surrogates will pooh-pooh the idea of a mail-in vote while he remains above the fray.  They'll argue that they are just looking out for the voters.

In reality, the mail-in vote is the only viable option remaining.

It is up to Dean and the DNC to work out the details, but Obama can use his "concerns" as a bargaining chip during the negotiations on when to hold the revote.

I predict that he will drop his "concerns" (or more accurately when his concerns are addressed and he feels comfortable that all voters will be heard) when he gets an acceptable end date for the revotes.

The closer to June the better for him for cynical and practical purposes.  He needs to be able to focus on Penn and then, if he loses Penn, focus on winning Indiana and NC.

If he loses Penn and then in quick succession loses a close race in MI and big in FL, the tide of perception could move against him even if the delegate difference doesn't change much.

He's going to be very careful with these revotes.  He wants them to happen when their impact will be minimized and when he's had a chance to campaign in the states.

That's how closure will have to come to this issue, whether Obama wants it or not.

Mark Brewer told us to vote 'uncommitted' if we didn't see our candidates name.

Now Obama wants MORE delegates than if ALL the uncommitted were just for little old him.  (Funny how it's all about 'the rules' 'cept when it's not in his favor.)

Does the DNC have NO RESPECT FOR VOTERS?  

First, they have SuperDelegates in case we don't do what they want - now they are manipulating our vote and reallocating delegates - thinking we're so stoopid we think we're being represented!

DNC VoteNazi, Howard, 'no vote for you' Dean, shouldn't decide the nominee, the people should!

If they don't allocate the delegates proportional to how we voted, we should look for a party that cares more about US then themselves.