Florida Delegates

Florida Dems: We Will Not Revote

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The Florida Democrats have reached their decision. They will not be holding a revote for their primary, banking instead on the decision of the Rules ...

Clinton Donors Threaten To Withhold Funds From DNC

New York Times | MICHAEL LUO and JOHN M. BRODER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The New York Times reports on the latest behind-the-scenes conflict over the delegate stalemate in Florida and Michigan. Reflecting how tense the si...

Jason Linkins

Florida: Today In In Unseated Convention Delegates

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Oh, Florida, you bring us such confusion. How else to describe the torturous process of settling the eventual fate of the Florida delegation to the D...

Clinton: Florida, Michigan Primaries Were "Fair" And Should Be "Honored"

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Sen. Clinton, speaking today at the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, argued today that the delegates from Florida and Michigan should be seated, in some ...

Florida House Dems Object To Revote

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


For a moment, it looked like party leaders were marching toward a Florida revote. But Obama's campaign signaled today that the mechanics would be an o...

Democrats Haggle In Search Of Florida, Michigan Primary Answers

Michigan Messenger | Alexa Stanard | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


How much will it cost? Who should pay? And should we even do it? Those are among the questions being asked all over the country about how to resolve t...

Jason Linkins

Florida And Michigan Remain In Spotlight

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean may only be getting a taste of what could be a grueling march to the Pennsylvania primary and beyond, ...

Florida: Vote-by-Mail Do-over Gains Traction

Jennifer Treuting | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Jennifer Treuting

With nothing settled by Texas and Ohio, once again, we turn to Florida. The delegate math is such that it will be very difficult for either Democratic...

Florida Republicans Weigh In On Democratic Primary Do-over

Ron Levitt | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Ron Levitt

A new proposal for seating Florida's Democratic delegates at the party's convention in Denver has emerged, this time from a Republican. The state's Re...

Florida, Michigan Revote: News, Polls and Rumors

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


**UPDATED** March 15 Clinton Supporters Stepping Up Pressure On DNC: The New York Times reports on the latest behind-the-scenes power struggle over t...

Sam Stein

Clinton Surrogate Hints That Primary Battle Will Go To Convention

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


In a Friday conference largely focused on calls for Sen. Barack Obama to fire his aide, Samantha Power, for a personal attack she levied at Sen. Hilla...

Democrats Face Deadlock Over Michigan And Florida Delegates

New York Times | JOHN M. BRODER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


With the two Democratic presidential candidates in near-deadlock and battling for every delegate, party leaders and the rival campaigns started search...

Democratic State Party Chair Lays Out Conditions For Florida Primary Mulligan

Ron Levitt | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Ron Levitt

TALLAHASSEE, FL -- Florida's Democratic Party Chairwoman Karen Thurman drew a line in the sand regarding the seating of its delegation. In an e-mail b...

DNC Lays Down Law For FL And MI: Rules Or Re-Vote

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


DNC Chairman Howard Dean told the Florida and Michigan Democratic parties that they had two options for seating their delegates: wait to see what the ...

Florida And Michigan Governors: Give Us Our Delegates

New York Times | Sarah Wheaton | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Florida's Republican governor and Michigan's Democratic governor have one major gripe in common: the national parties have punished both of their stat...

Florida's GOP Governor: I'll Support A New Democratic Primary

Bloomberg | Nadine Elsibai | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Florida Governor Charlie Crist said he'd support a repeat of the Democratic presidential primary so the state's delegates can be counted at the party'...

Clinton: Michigan, Florida Should Be Seated

Texas Monthly | Evan Smith | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


There's been a lot of talk about what your campaign would do should it get to the convention. Would you commit today to honoring the agreement made ea...

Editorial: A Rotten Way To Pick A President

Washington Post | Sean Wilentz and Julian E. Zelizer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Something is seriously wrong with the way we pick our presidential candidates. But experts and pundits, caught up in the horse races, have been slow t...

Pelosi: Florida And Michigan Delegates Shouldn't Decide Race

Bloomberg | Laura Litvan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Delegates from the disputed Florida and Michigan primaries shouldn't decide who wins the party's presidential nomination, said House Speaker Nancy Pel...

Bob Kerrey: Florida, Michigan Delegates Shouldn't Be Seated

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Bob Kerrey, never one to change his views or start talking about "automatic delegates" just because somebody told him to on a conference call, isn't b...

Max Follmer

Everything You've Ever Wanted To Know About Delegates And Superdelegates

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Here's everything you always wanted to ask but never dared to about the Democratic delegates and superdelegates. Who are the Democratic delegates and...

Sharpton: Don't Seat Fla., Mich.

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Seating delegates from Florida and Michigan at the Democratic National Convention would be a grave injustice, the Rev. Al Sharpton ...

Max Follmer

Price Tag Precludes Re-Vote In Michigan And Florida

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The controversial Florida and Michigan Democratic primaries will most likely not be rescheduled, as some activists have recently demanded, according ...

Max Follmer

Looming Delegate Fight Over Florida And Michigan Races

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The split decision from Super Tuesday's coast-to-coast balloting has thrust the fight over the disputed delegations from Michigan and Florida back int...

DNC Urged to End Fight Over Delegates

AP | BRENDAN FARRINGTON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The woman who oversaw the documentation of voter disenfranchisement during the disputed 2000 presidential election has asked...