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NAACP Head To DNC: Seat Florida And Michigan Delegations
This has the potential to give the Hillary campaign a boost in its quest to get Florida and Michigan's delegations seated:
A prominent civil rights leader has told the Democratic National Committee that refusing to seat delegates from Florida and Michigan would disenfranchise both states' minority communities.In a Feb. 8 letter to DNC Chairman Howard Dean, NAACP chairman Julian Bond expressed "great concern at the prospect that million of voters in Michigan and Florida could ultimately have their votes completely discounted." Refusing to seat the states' delegations could remind voters of the "sordid history of racially discriminatory primaries," he said.
This suggests that the fight over this, if it happens, could prove a bruising and divisive one, something I'm not sure people have really focused on yet. Everyone's talking about super-delegates instead.
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