Tonights question is a tough one as for just the next two nights I will ask you to put your prefence of Politcal Party and Candidates aside and deal with the issue on every voter counts. Posted below you will see the number of Florida voters who showed up to vote in the Democratic Primary (Senator McCain won the Republican Primary) even knowing the likelyhood that the Democratic National Committee would stip their delegates and not count them at the convention. So putting aside what I asked you to put aside as we will deal with Michigan tomorrow night.
Do you feel the credentials committee of the Democratic National Party should seat the delegates from the State of Florida? And the voters be allowed representation of their wishes at the Democratic Convention?
This is taken from the Wall Street Journal.
Democrats
0 delegates*
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | 857,208 | 49.7% | Delegates stripped by party | |
| Barack Obama | 569,041 | 33.0 | ||
| John Edwards | 248,604 | 14.4 | ||
| Joseph R. Biden Jr. | 15,429 | 0.9 | ||
| Bill Richardson | 14,782 | 0.9 | ||
| Dennis J. Kucinich | 9,537 | 0.6 | ||
| Christopher J. Dodd | 5,402 | 0.3 | ||
| Mike Gravel | 5,261 | 0.3 | ||
Because of the differences in how absentee and early-voting returns are handled, some counties report an estimate of the precincts reporting based on expected turnout.
Republicans
57 pledged delegates
| John McCain | 693,508 | 36.0% | 57 | |
| Mitt Romney | 598,188 | 31.1 | 0 | |
| Rudolph W. Giuliani | 281,781 | 14.6 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 259,735 | 13.5 | 0 | |
| Ron Paul | 62,063 | 3.2 | 0 | |
| Fred D. Thompson | 22,288 | 1.2 | 0 | |
| Duncan Hunter | 2,787 | 0.1 | 0 | |
| Tom Tancredo | 1,556 | 0.1 | 0 | |
| Others | 4,005 | 0.2 | 0 |
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Yes, seat all the delegates. Those citizen's vote should count.
The fix is a do-over in both Michigan and Florida. It is the only fair way to seat delegates from these two states who took it upon themselves to subvert the rules of the party.
That being said, the politicians were told NOT to campaign in Michigan and Florida, but they were NOT told to keep their names off of the ballot. Both Michigan and Florida's votes should count, their delegates sat at the convention.
I've not looked at the numbers, but what happens to the delegate counts if these delegate votes count?
United we stand-- Divided we fall. ~mo-zy
Thanks for publishing to What's the Point?
Absolutely seat them.
Carol you tickle me. You are so informed on all of this, have you yourself ever thought about running for office even at a city level? You would be a breath of fresh air. Come on up here and oust some of our little city officials that have had their heads in the sand for so long I can't even remember what they look like. :)
no matter what state we're in.
One person; One vote!!
And every person's vote counts.