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At the Democratic National Committee’s rules and bylaws committee prepares to meet on Saturday to decide the fate of calendar cheaters Florida and Michigan, attorneys for the DNC are arguing that party rules require that the two states lose at least half their delegates for violating the party’s nomination calendar.

A high-ranking Hillary Clinton campaign supporter has put another Michigan delegate plan on the table, though it’s not likely to pass the Obama test.

Lanny Davis, a Clinton fundraiser without formal portfolio (though “wartime consigliere” is an apt description) proposes splitting the delegates 50-50. Oh, not all the delegates. The 73 that Clinton “won” in the [...]

The tactic has failed twice already, but three Florida “delegates” are suing the Democratic National Committee, arguing that not seating the state’s delegates is a violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

One of the plaintiffs is a state legislative leader who, as the state voted to move its primary up to Jan. 31, openly mocked [...]

In his first interview with a Florida reporter since signing the early state pledge last August, Barrack Obama said he would be open to seating a Florida delegation based on the Jan. 31 primary results at 50 percent strength.

Obama said he had no choice politically but to go along with Iowa and three other early [...]

“Love you back,” Barack Obama invariably says near the beginning of each speech, when someone from the crowd shouts “We love you.”

Barack Obama loves Iowa back. The Jan. 3 caucus winner is in Des Moines tonight to mark what he’s not quite calling a clinch of the Democratic presidential nomination.

The Obama near-win bodes well for [...]

Michigan Democrats finally, officially, we mean it this time, settled on a split the difference plan for trying to get its delegates from the rule-breaking Jan. 15 primary seated at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. But there’s no buy-in from the Hillary Clinton campaign, and the campaigns aren’t the only players at the table.

Loosely organized on-line petitions are backing a proposal to seat the Michigan delegates elected in the too-early Jan. 15 primary, but punish the state by taking away its superdelegates.

The petitions were organized to counter a proposal by a leading Hillary Clinton supporter to seat Michigan’s superdelegates with a full vote, but give the elected delegates [...]

Still wringing your hands over the dispute between the Democratic National Committee, the early states who played by the rules, and calendar leapfroggers Florida and Michigan?

Have no fear. Dennis Kucinich is going to solve all our problems.

The Democratic Party is becoming increasingly desperate for a solution to the mess Michigan made when it decided to screw Iowa and New Hampshire by moving its primary to Jan. 15. How do you make everybody happy — the two deadlocked campaigns, the Michigan voters who had little say in the matter, and the early [...]

Another week ends, and the Democrats are no closer to a solution on the Michigan-Florida delegate disaster. The Barack Obama campaign has finally made its condition official: It wants a 50-50 split of the Michigan delegation. The Clinton campaign has predictably rejected that.