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...because my attitude has been that this should be a campaign about our policy positions and where we want to take the country but if she starts asserting that somehow I'm not ready and that one of the reasons that the Democrats or superdelegates should not vote for me is because we don't know enough about him, or there may be things in his past or his character that make him vulnerable to Republican attack, then I think it's certainly fair to compare our track records on issues like ethics to see whether...
Still, as the Obama campaign has never tired of pointing out, all of the Democratic candidates had refused to campaign in either state. And in Michigan, Barack Obama's name wasn't even on the ballot (40% of the vote there, in fact, went to "uncommitted.") Many voters who might have gone to the polls say they didn't. For that reason, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and its embattled head, Howard Dean, keep stressing that it wouldn't be fair now to suddenly change the rules that were agreed to a year ago. (The Clinton camp, however, insists...
...what happens now? One thing that both states have made clear is that any new vote must not be paid for with public money, and the Democratic National Committee doesn't have the cash to do it either. That, however, is not an insurmountable obstacle, as federal law allows the state parties to raise unregulated "soft money," and well-heeled Democratic donors across the country presumably would see the need to get the issue resolved and chip in, especially if both campaigns support the idea. "The biggest incentive for both campaigns is that this is a way to repair...
...possibility that Florida officials are considering is a mail-in vote, similar to the system used in Oregon, to be held in May or early June. The cost of that kind of primary is estimated to be around $5 million to $10 million, which is considerably less than what it would take to hold a traditional state-wide primary...
What's ironic about the whole controversy is that both states moved their primaries forward in hopes of having more influence in choosing the ultimate nominee. As things turned out for the Democrats, it will be the ones who vote latest - which ultimately may include both Michigan and Florida - that will have the biggest...