The only reason to split the delegates is to prevent Hillary from catching up.

Via Real Clear Politics:

Hillary won Florida by 294,772 votes.
Hillary won Michigan by 328,309 votes

Hillary won 150,000 more votes than Obama last night in Kentucky and Oregon. She won Kentucky by 249,224 votes while Obama won Oregon by 102,144 votes.

Let's add it all up:

Popular Vote Totals (w/FL & MI)Hillary leads by 174,047 votes (.48%.)

Popular Vote Totals (w/FL & MI and Estimate w/IA, NV, ME, WA): Hillary leads by 63,825 votes (.18%)

I would not acknowledge "votes" from corrupt, fraudulent, and un-democratic caucuses.

Regardless of what the DNC does on May 31 with FL and MI delegates, the popular votes were certified by the states. Their numbers are real and they must be added to her popular vote total.

MI: No one knows who Obama is. State is undoubtedly going to Clinton, as she is popular here, esp. among the AAs. Obama removes his name from the ballot (though this was not required) and encourages Edwards to do the same in order to delegitimize the results (did Obama and Axelrod plan to later claim all of the uncommitted vote?). FL: Clinton is hugely popular, with the lg elderly and Hispanic population. Obama breaks the rules by running ads here, but does not take his name off the ballot. These two states had a combined pledged delegate total of 313.

Iowa went for Obama, in line with DNC wishes. NH? Clinton pulls an upset. Obamaites get nervous-- SC is on the horizon and he needs to win to remain viable. Solution? Painting the Clintons fraudulently as racists (as evidenced by the leaked SC memo). In a normal world, these claims would not have held water, because Hillary Clinton has fought for the AA community, and Bill is loved by many AAs. However, these claims gained credibility as Donna Brazille (DNC) expressed her anger towards Bill's "fairytale" comments and James Clyburn stoked the fire. The only way Obama has his lead today stems from the fact that he had to cast Clinton as a racist to convince the AA community to vote in ungodly precentages for him, delivering his SC victory (and GA, NC, VA, MD, etc).

I realize this is a conspiracy theory, but it does have some validity, no?
Hillary Clinton was never supposed to win. The Dnc had annointed Obama before the primary process had even started. Dean is not scared about the fallout from not counting MI and FL, this was the plan.

This is why MI and FL will not be counted. Because Donna Brazille sits on the rules committee.

Called on their feckess disregard of their own rules, now, the RBC want to impose a resolution--after Obama's campaign stalled and obstructed a revote--which provides delegates to Obama that he did not earn in Michigan because he CHOSE to take himself off the ballot voluntarily to pander to Iowa and New Hampshire [which also violated the rules but were not punished for doing so]. And, they want to ignore the fact that Obama violated the pledge in Florida by running ads and doing a press conference, and still give him delegates he should have "stripped" from him because of it.

Can there be ANY DOUBT whatsoever that Howard Dean has conspired to turn the entire Democratic primary process into a fraudulent, reckless and wanton disregard for the Democratic Party and its voters? Not in my mind.

I might have been able to, at one point, find a way to see this process as fair--but only if Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina had also been sanctioned along with Florida and Michigan; or if the RBC had sanctioned according to the rules, which stipulate a 50% punishment. Or if the party had imposed a revote ruling.

But this entire debacle has undermined any faith I had in the Democratic Party as the party of justice, civil rights and equality.

Moreover, to install a nominee on the basis of rules fraud and ignore the clear fact that red-state caucuses of a few thousands of voters do not represent the will of the Democratic voters, while disenfranchising the officially recorded votes of Democratic Party voters in Florida and Michigan is a breathtaking--and brazen--breach of both the spirit and the letter of the rules of the DNC.

Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina violated the rules, but were not punished for it--and the popular vote in South Carolina and New Hampshire are counted in the official tally. This is a stunning hypocrisy.

DNC Delegate Selection Rule 11A [PDF], states the following:

No meetings, caucuses, conventions or primaries which constitute the first determining stage in the presidential nomination process (the date of the primary in primary states, and the date of the first tier caucus in caucus states) may be held prior to the first Tuesday in February or after the second Tuesday in June in the calendar year of the national convention. Provided, however, that the Iowa precinct caucuses may be held no earlier than 22 days before the first Tuesday in February; that the Nevada first-tier caucuses may be held no earlier than 17 days before the first Tuesday in February; that the New Hampshire primary may be held no earlier than 14 days before the first Tuesday in February; and that the South Carolina primary may be held no earlier than 7 days before the first Tuesday in February. In no instance may a state which scheduled delegate selection procedures on or between the first Tuesday in February and the second Tuesday in June 1984 move out of compliance with the provisions of this rule.

Thus, the rules were not only broken by Florida and Michigan, but also by Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Iowa held their caucus on January 3, 2008 instead of January 14. New Hampshire held their primary on January 8, 2008 instead of January 22. South Carolina held their primary on January 26, 2008 instead of January 29.

The penalty for violating Rule 11A, according to DNC Delegate Selection Rule 20C1a [PDF], states:

In the event the Delegate Selection Plan of a state party provides or permits a meeting, caucus, convention or primary which constitutes the first determining stage in the presidential nominating process to be held prior to or after the dates for the state as provided in Rule 11 of these rules, or in the event a state holds such a meeting, caucus, convention or primary prior to or after such dates, the number of pledged delegates elected in each category allocated to the state pursuant to the Call for the National Convention shall be reduced by fifty (50%) percent, and the number of alternates shall also be reduced by fifty (50%) percent. In addition, none of the members of the Democratic National Committee and no other unpledged delegate allocated pursuant to Rule 8.A. from that state shall be permitted to vote as members of the state's delegation. In determining the actual number of delegates or alternates by which the state's delegation is to be reduced, any fraction below .5 shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number, and any fraction of .5 or greater shall be rounded up to the next nearest whole number.

According to Rule 20C1a, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Michigan, and Florida should have had their delegates reduced by 50%. However, Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina were not penalized at all to protect their first-in-the-nation status, while Michigan and Florida were stripped of all their delegates. Thus, the DNC is applying the rules arbitrarily.

More Rules:

Michigan:
Refer to the DNC Delegate Selection Rules, specifically Rule 13.A. "Fair Reflection of Presidential Preference."

Delegates shall be allocated in a fashion that fairly reflects the expressed presidential preference or uncommitted status of the primary voters.

Obama did not reach the 15% threshhold to receive delegates in Michigan. Awarding him delegates would not reflect the legal and certified vote.

Also see Rule 20.C.2. This addresses what happens when delegates are awarded in violation of Rule 13.

Florida:
Rule 20.C.1.b. of the Delegate Selection Rules.
"A Presidential candidate who campaigns in a state in violation of the timing provisions of the rules,... may NOT receive pledged delegates or delegate votes from that state."

We all know that Obama had TV ads running in Florida and that he also held a press conference there. Both of those activities violate Rule 20.C.1.b.

I'm going outside the primary window," [Michigan Sen. Carl Levin] told me definitively.

"If I allow you to do that, the whole system collapses," I said. "We will have chaos. I let you make your case to the DNC, and we voted unanimously and you lost."

He kept insisting that they were going to move up Michigan on their own, even though if they did that, they would lose half their delegates. By that point Carl and I were leaning toward each other over a table in the middle of the room, shouting and dropping the occasional expletive.

"You won't deny us seats at the convention," he said.

"Carl, take it to the bank," I said. "They will not get a credential. The closest they'll get to Boston will be watching it on television. I will not let you break this entire nominating process for one state. The rules are the rules. If you want to call my bluff, Carl, you go ahead and do it."