Also from the memo:

Florida Democrats propose June 3 vote

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"Only 63% of these primary-voting Democrats are committed to sticking with our eventual nominee if Florida voters are not counted. That number is dangerously low," the memo says.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DISS THE VOTERS>

Yezs, what about Michigan?

UI think this is Hillary Clinton cherrypickign states.

her party hack friends don't want Michigan, sicne she will lose.

Curiously, only Florida where ashe is afavored are planning a revote.

I say either BOTH MI and FL or neither.

HRC is a cheatocrat and she's hurting our democracy.

Let's be honest here - splitting the delegates 50/50 is not "seating" delegates and it is not democratic because the delgates are not representative of the people in their state. The longer the Obama campaign tries to deny the people of Michigan and Florida a vote, the more scared and manipulative the campaign looks.

Florida was penalized because they moved their primary before SC. South Carolina then countered and moved their primary up as well so that they could be first in the South and received no penalty at all. Let's split those SC delegates 50/50 too. Bottom line is that FL primary date moving up had no impact on anything. The DNC's decision to remove their delegates was capricious and self-destructive (as we can clearly see now).

If the Obama folks had any sense, they would recognize that this is a losing issue for them & every vote should be counted. He could appear confident by saying the votes in Florida were so early and I didn't get a chance to campaign there, so I believe I will perform much stronger there than in the original Florida primary. But now, he & his supporters are running scared, afraid of cutting into his current delegate advantage.

As the venerable John Madden says, the prevent defense only prevents you from winning. If he is trying to establish himself as the strongest candidate to face McCain, I can guarantee the best way to do that is not by appearing scared of a fight and certainly not by alienating the voters of MI & FL who might I remind you we will need in November.

Something tells me they won't forget the kind of insults and disregard for their votes that Obama and his campaign are putting forth.

And can someone please remind the supporters that petitioning for a revote is WITHIN the party rules as they are established. Just as super-delegates voting for whomever they wish is WITHIN the party rules as they are established. I'm tired of the Obama sheep just repeating the same old false nonsense and not ebign called on it.

Let's not forget that Senior Clinton Advisor Harold Ickes is the one that disenfranchised Florida and Michigan in the first place.

CNN is running a convincing piece today to the effect that vote by mail will never happen

1. Illegal under FL election law
2. Illegal to sell voter roll - can't be done by an outside firm
3. Can't use voting machines because state is getting ready for November and is in the middle of a machine switchover which has left some counties without voting machines

And that is the end of that.

On to the Credentials Committee with what is left of the Great Clintons' Election Theft 2008

Let's just get on with it already. I'm tired of the whining. REVOTE NOW! It's the only reasonable solution.

Pathetic, I can't stand the clintons. They have been soooo victimized throughout their lives. Especially while she had that cushy job on the walmart board, or when she was hosting whitehouse dinners. Man, what a rough life.

Well, if we've learned anything about Hillary Clnton it's that there is nothing the woman won't say with a straight face.

Chris Dodd is absolutely right. Seat the Michigan and Florida delegations, split their votes 50-50 and don't allow them to change their votes.

Nothing else is fair. Nothing else makes sense. Any other solution will not only prolong but encourage the Clinton scorched-earth strategy and will be costly to the party's chances in November - both in money wasted that could be better spent on McCain, and in further collateral damage to the party from the Clinton suicide-bomb strategy. Vast amounts of energy will (one would hope) be spent on trying to make fair a couple of re-dos that will be controlled by Clinton-friendly boards of elections in both states.

Clinton and her people will screech and poke their eyes out, and launch yet another barrage of everybody-picks-on-poor-Hillary crap, but they will do that anyway. It's what they do - part of a campaign that by design uses self-pity, hate, and fear.

The DNC can resolve this and they should do it now. Write to Senator Dodd, write to Howard Dean. This is insane. Make it stop.

there is absolutly no way a mail in ballot can proceed.
florida is the training ground for vote fraud.
200,000 BLACK voters were illegally removed from the voting rolls under jeb bush.

if you want a re-do open up the polls and make the people vote.

otherwise declare ALL elections from now on will be mailed in.
you cant have it both ways.

See Clinton supporters CAN disagree without being disagreeable :)

This Obama campaign slogan of "Politics of Nope - the votes of Florida folks and Michigan folks don't count because your state party decided to move it's primaries up" is wrong on principle and it is inevitable that it will lose.

The Democratic party is the party of principles. Every vote counts is one of those core principles that no one should question. If the Obama campaign and his supporters are really arguing that the voters in Fl & MI should be discounted because of a dispute between the state and national parties, that is not in accordance with those core principles. As a democrat and as an african american female who treasures the right of every individual to vote, it is indefensible to argue that we should discount the votes of millions of people.

This is not about what is best for Senator Clinton or Obama. In the interests of the Democratic Party, we need to find a way to let them vote and make this a fair election.

It won't be solved because Obama doesn't want it solved. He would rather disenfranchise the voters of Florida and Michigan. If he allowed Democrats in Florida and Michigan their votes it would mean he'd lose the argument that he leads in the popular vote and leads greatly in pledged delegates. He wants to be able to make that argument to the super delegates, and he doesn't care how many Democrats he has to disenfranchise so that he can.

These same people call Clinton ruthless, dishonest and self-serving.

The end result of Obama's political maneuvering is that whoever the Democratic nominee is, he/she will be greatly weakened by a process that will seem unfair and undemocratic to most Americans. If this is how Obama must win, he is diminishing his own chances of winning against McCain. It's another sign of the underlying weakness and short-sightedness of his campaign.

I suggest google and watching the news and his campaign surrogates such as Chris Dodd et al. There is a ton of sources coming out of the Obama campaign that they are opposed to a revote. Obama wants the delegates seated 50/50 as reported basically everywhere. Let's not change the rules & such, BUT I will abide by the decision of the party.

Here's an article citing his state chairs in MI:

http://www.wilx.com/news/headlines/16630666.html

Now is Obama brave enough to come out himself and say he opposes a revote? Of course not, but every advocate he has says the same thing. Saying you will abide by the party decision does not preclude advocating your position which in his case has been split the delegates 50/50.