Fine by me. Find the money; find the date; and the Obama campaign will arrive there--and win!

Same with Michigan.

I think it would help the Dems. It would give both HRC and BO a chance to campaign in Florida and would provide excellent exposure to whomever was the eventual nominee. I suspect that will be BO and the exposure would help put Florida in play in the fall.

I suspect that the reason Hunter H.T. doesn't like the idea is that he is a total Hilbot, and thinks that having HRC steal the nomination by seating MI and FL is a great idea. Stealing elections by changing the rules three-quarters of the way through the nomination fight would be like asking to count exhibition games 3/4 of the way through the season because your team isn't going to make the playoffs. Not only would it not be fair, but it would be like pouring gasoline on the party and lighting a match. If that is the only way HRC can win/steal the nomination, it would not be worth having.

Crist is running for the VP spot, that is all this is; to think anything else is just dumb.

A Republican solution to a Democratic problem? ? ? ?

I am all for redoing the vote if it comes to seating Florida. You have to remember, though, that currently Clinton is losing even if we take into account the delegates that she won uncontested. It would require a pretty big blow-out for her to gain anything from it.

I just want this primary to fucking end already!!!!

This is a sign that McCain and surrogates are frighten about Obama. While I like the idea of holding another democratic primary contest in Florida with Obama name on the ballot, at this point it not going to be necessary, because Hillary will lose Texas tomorrow, and drop out of the race, unless she is willing to inflict further damage to the democratic party.

Gee, what a sweet offer.

They oh so want Hillary as the candidate. Clear as day.

Why?

Because she can't win the general election. Zero % chance.

Homefries. I like crist for a republican. The problem I have is that he is angling for a vp slot with mccain. What better way to seal that than to allow a redo of the primary, probably paid for by the rnc, lets say about June 30, so that the clintons' train wreck can keep going and further divide the dems. It sounds like a rnc hail mary pass to get the clintons the nomination and then crush them in november, retake the senate and cut into the dem lead in the house. Pathetic.

Are you the same Hunter Thompson who incessantly posts pro-Hillary comments at MyDD?

If I have a case of "mistaken Hunters" I profoundly apologize. You should track down the guy at MyDD and straighten him out, he is impugning your good name.

What an asshole.

He seems to want to prolong the Democratic battle.
Too late for that now. Regardless of the outcome, this race is ending tommorow tuesday.

Hillary will have to be dragged off the stage if it comes to that.

what happened to our constitution......one person one vote ........the dem party are idiots ....vote twice in texas ...let fla vote twice and what about michigan??

Crist is the one who signed into law the primary date that the dem voters were stuck with thru no fault of their own .....

Crist is the one who signed into law the primary date that the dem voters were stuck with thru no fault of their own .....

Florida's state Democratic legislators voted in favor of the bill(setting the primary date) that Crist signed; more specifically, a majority of Democratic state legislators voted with the Republican majority of state legislators.
Google it, or search the TPM archives, I've seen it mentioned several times.
My point is that, having voted for those self-same state legislators, that willingly supported the bill, the "dem voters" aren't in a No-Fault zone.

On another topic: Crist angling for a VP nod in this election cycle? On what planet? Not with McCain's Hagee endorsement, is all I'm saying ...

For all the cynicism and suspicion of Governor Crist that I see above, this is a solution that resolves the issue of Florida delegates at the source that caused it (the Florida government.) It is also the ONLY possible solution that actually involved the Florida voters. Everything else will be a case of non-Floridians haggling over how to allocate Florida delegates.

Sure there are some downsides, but all of them are less than if the rest of the National Democratic delegates wind up saying "Here's what we will do to Florida."

So the original voters are disenfranchised? They knew that when they voted! They made their statement anyway. With this proposal they get to present their own say in a forum that counts in more than just the media. It's not as early in the decision process, but the Florida political leaders robbed them of that, not the national Democratic Party.

Will it add to the uncertainty leading into the convention? Yeah, and that has always been the conservative argument against democracy and letting voters decide. Democracy takes away the power to act that elites claim is their own and that no one else is competent to perform.

For the downsides, this puts all the repercussions from Florida voters back where it belongs - onto the Florida political leaders who masterminded that piece of crap that caused the problem.

And it WILL suck all the national media attention out of McCain's sails.

Then, after the election, the Democratic Party will have about two years to come up with a set of rules that makes some sense out of the primary process. But that is for after the next Democratic President is elected.

Florida's Dem House Minority Leader was just on the radio in Miami, and he is advocating a mail-in ballot, with Dems and Independents eligible. He thinks it will help Dems in November to have Hillary and Barack campaign here. (He has not endorsed Clinton or Obama.)

Crist's offer means the state will pay for the primary, whether it's a mail-in or polling place primary.

it continues to shock me how a bunch of supporters so in love with themselves and their candidate, and who've gotten the same fawning for their candidate from the media translating into historic levels of financial support, and a fully engaged "hipster" online community...

...shocks me that that hubris so oft projected on tv by supporters and campaign officials isn't translating now into an eagerness to reflect true democracy, to garner a unassailable mandate for the "chosen one" candidate and full bore support a fully-funded re-do of florida and/or michigan elections.

...oh, but i'm sure all the unemployed and partially employed college and grad school supporters of obama who have no life obligations like jobs, or caring for children to keep them from making a limited 2 hour abomination to democracy called a "caucus" -- i'm quite sure you folks would be just peachy-keen with re-do caucuses because your schedule (or lack thereof) allow you to dominate such events.

but a re-do primary? "eek! shudder the thought!"

your convinced he's the messiah, well then convince everyone else by running out the string and garnering your candidate's mandate.

if you can't, then please, stop whining.