Lanny Davis Outlines Michigan, Florida Compromise

Lanny Davis Outlines Michigan, Florida Compromise

Here are two important neutral principles that should guide the Democratic National Committee's Rules Committee when they meet May 31 to decide whether to seat the Michigan and Florida delegations -- and, if so, how to allocate them between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

One principle is based in law, the second in pragmatic politics. Both principles result in the same solution: in some rough approximation, honoring the results expressed by almost 600,000 Michigan Democrats and more than 1.7 million Florida Democrats who turned out in record numbers though they were not responsible for the rules violations, were told their votes didn't count and don't want to be disenfranchised.

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