Well she wouldn't have been like, "Woot, 26 delegates! Now I lose by a smaller margin! I now endorse Obama now that Michigan and Florida's voices have been heard!" It's been about her enhancing her argument for the convention (or earlier, the superdelegates).

But even Hillary must know that the chances of her getting 240.5 delegates are pretty much nil, especially as compared to Obama's needing only 64 delegates to lock up the nomination now INCLUDING FL & MI. Really all he needs to get her to STFU are something like 20 SDs and the pledged delegates he'll get this Tuesday.

Of course the results should be consistent. Both states broke the rules, and as a consequence, neither state held a valid primary. This was agreed by all parties prior to the non-valid primaries being held. There's no way to get a "real" result - the kind you would get if all candidates are on the ballot and all candidates are actively campaigning for support in each state - from a "fake" primary. Which is what both of these were advertised as.

The committee fucked up big time by not sticking by that agreement, signed by all, that the results wouldn't count. The only way to make the results not count while still allowing each state delegate participation at the convention is to split the delegates 50-50. Now Hillary can continue whining about being "robbed" of 4 or 5 MI delegates, not that it would help her. There's no basis for the MI decision at all. It's just as bogus to grant all the uncommitted vote to Obama as it is to grant the 55% Hillary "won" in the primary. The issue is, she didn't WIN anything, because it wasn't a binding vote. THAT's the part they screwed up on - not sticking to the agreement that neither primary would count.

Kennedy was welcomed back. Dems tend to be very forgiving folk.

THE TOP 10 LIES ABOUT THE PRIMARIES IN FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN BEING CIRULATED BY THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN:

Lie #1: Hillary went back on her pledge
Truth: Hillary only pledged that she would not campaign in those states before the primary, which she didn't. It was Obama who broke his pledge by advertising in Northern Florida.

Lie #2: Hillary was the only candidate on the ballot in Michigan.
Truth: Mike Gravel, Chris Dodd, and Dennis Kusinich were also on the ballot. The reason that Obama took his name off the ballot is because he was going to lose big to Hillary Clinton, and he wanted to appeal to voters in Iowa and New Hampshire and also to soften the impact of his defeat in Michigan for future primaries.

Lie #3: They were not legal primary elections because they weren't sanctioned by the DNC.
Truth: Both elections were organized by the state legislatures with the approval of both Republican and Democratic state parties. They results were perfectly legal and certified by both states. The only role that the national Democratic party has is in whether to recognize the results at their national party convention.

Lie #4: The primary in Michigan was ruled unconstitutional and it has no effect.
Truth: Edmunds, the ACLU lawyers who won the case and the state's top election manager all agree that the ruling had no practical impact on the 2008 presidential campaign. "Nothing I'm going to say or do" affects the results of the Jan. 15 vote, Edmunds said. "That's the political reality. That election is on the history books, and it doesn't disappear because the law that created it is off the books,"

Lie #5: It’s unfair to count those who voted in those two states because many voters didn’t bother to vote, thinking that their vote wouldn’t count.
Truth: There were scores of issues and candidates for office on the ballots in both Florida and Michigan, and voting is the patriotic duty of every American citizen. The registered voters who failed to show up to vote were not only not voting for a democratic primary candidate, but they were also refusing to do their duty to vote on many other matters of importance in a perfectly legal state election. And so to penalize and take away the votes of those who did their duty for the sake of those too lazy to do theirs, only highlights the complete moral bankruptcy of their position.

LIE #6: Hillary will decide whether the fight over seating Florida and Michigan will continue until the convention.
Truth: Obama has consistently exercised his preference not to give Florida or Michigan any revote or any voice whatsoever in nominating a Democratic candidate, only because he lost those particular elections badly, and he would lose them again. His only interest has been to inflate his popular vote and pledged delegate total in order to perpetuate the myth of his own inevitability. Obama’s selfish ambition and drive for power is/ and will always be the only reason that their fight for representation and democracy must now continue until the convention.

Lie #7: Hillary once said that the election in Michigan wouldn’t count, so she can’t change her mind now.
Truth: It was never up to Hillary whether to count the primary in Michigan. She was making an observation about the decision of the DNC at that particular time, which can always change. But she never agreed to try and disenfranchise the voters of Michigan and Florida. She has consistently held that they must be represented.

Lie #8: It doesn’t make any difference: even if you count Michigan and Florida, Obama is too far ahead.
Truth: If you count Michigan and Florida, Obama is only about 30 votes ahead in total elected pledged delegates. And because Hillary also leads in the popular vote, most of the 796 super delegates should also go to her, since it is the will of the people.

Lie #9: Rules are rules and without them you have chaos.
Truth: The so-called rules are really only provisional rulings by party plutocrats and they change all the time. There has never been a Democratic Party convention that refused to seat a state delegation, and there has never been a Democratic candidate who won by disenfranchising voters. Obama is the only democratic candidate in the 200 year history of the party to flaunt, in a very determined way, the very highest rule of every democracy: that you must count every vote.

Lie #10: The process has been completely fair to Hillary.
Truth: If the shoe were on the other foot, Obama would be screaming racism and bloody murder about the disenfranchisement of millions of voters. But because he is stealing the election from Hillary, and she is a woman, and hers are mostly white voters, she is supposed to shut-up and take it, and never to speak out about the damage being done to our party and to the nation.