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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 [...]

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.

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.

With the latest solutions to the Democratic Party’s Michigan-Florida dilemma hinging on the national popular vote totals, could we finally see the top-secret raw vote totals from the Iowa caucuses?

Former Iowa Democratic Party communications director Carrie Giddins, who for more than a year dealt with the hordes of national and international media in Iowa for caucuses coverage, had a front-row seat for the calendar wars with Florida and Michigan.

“The consensus is clear,” Florida Democratic Chair Karen Thurman wrote in a Monday release. “Florida doesn’t want to vote again. So we won’t.”

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

The latest on the lack of a solution:

You know, I really thought I was done with these Michigan/Florida leapfrog updates back in about November.  Here’s the latest: