The DNC rules committee has given the state of Florida 30 days to move its Primary from January 29th, to no sooner than February 5th or lose its Delegates to the 2008 Convention.
Related story from NY Times: Democrats Take a Tough Line on Florida Primary
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Thank God. I hope they stick to their guns, and I hope Michigan takes notice and STFU.
and who says conventions are little more than coronation ceremonies?
Perhaps I’m showing my age, but I do remember when conventions were much more than coronation ceremonies. There was much intra-party battling during the convention. We then came out of the convention unified and prepared.
VP candidates were picked, platforms were designed, agendas were set.
Only since the rampant media attention and mulit-million dollar campaigns have the conventions become public declarations of established decisions.
Well, of course they’ve seemed like coronations lately because we’ve been entering the convention with one candidate having plenty of delegates locked up. No guarantee that’s going to happen though (unless one believes that somebody like the DNC controls the voting machines). And it would be even less likely that one candidate would get 2181 delegates without Florida in there (but them maybe they would only need to get 2076?). In any case, with Hillary dominating national polls but Edwards and Obama doing well in the early states, and withe the compressed schedule, it could get interesting.
I’m watching the DNC debate from Saturday – its on CSpan2. Good info.
I’m just saying don’t be a kid in Donna Brazile’s household and try to break curfew – whoo, I pity the fool.