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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Do-overs in Mich., Fla.?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With Hillary Clinton’s victories in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island, is it time to consider full-fledged primary do-overs in Michigan and Florida, where the results were invalidated because those states broke party rules by holding primaries too early?
These do-overs could be held the same day as Pennsylvania’s (April 22), Super Tuesday III. Although it would cost millions for the states to hold new elections, there would be a mass infusion of candidate campaign dollars into the Florida and Michigan economies.
Or, should the Democrats simply accept the earlier primary results, despite the fact that Clinton was the only Democratic candidate on the ballot in Michigan, and there was little or no campaigning in Florida?
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean has endorsed do-overs, although questions remain whether the states or the national party would pay.
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Where will the Democrat’s nomination race end?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Clinton may have ended the debate about dropping out with a clear victory in Ohio and a slim win in the Texas popular vote.
But with Obama ahead in the second part of the Lone Star State’s caucuses for a chunk of the delegates, the delegate math is still on his side.
So you be the political pundit. Where does the race go from here? Does HIllary end her race sometime in the coming weeks?
Do party “elders” step in and negotiate a ticket? Does the nomination race end at the Democratic convention in turmoil with battles over seating Florida and Michigan and over those “superdelegates?”
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