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Posted at 1:34pm on May 31, 2008 "How about a three-fifths compromise?"

Hey, it worked for the Democrats before

By Jeff Emanuel

Michigan and Florida, two states who violated Democrat Party rules and moved their primaries up to the beginning of this year in order to gain nominating relevance, did become extremely relevant; however, in a supreme case of electoral irony, the nomination battle between Sens. Clinton and Obama has gone on for so long this year that both Michigan and Florida, along with Pennsylvania, Oregon, West Virginia, Kentucky, and so many more, are -- and would have been -- relevant to the nominating process anyway.

We are being reminded of that relevance yet again today, as the Democratic Party is making its latest attempt to solve its Michigan and Florida problem without (a) giving the nomination to the "wrong person," thereby sparking an irreconcilable intraparty war in the run-up to November's general election; (b) rewarding state parties who willfully flaunted their breaking of DNC figurehead Howard Dean's primary-date rules; and (c) alienating two of the most important states to Democrats in this entire election.

The compromises being put forward included a proposal (by the Clinton camp, of course) to seat all 211 of Florida's human and super delegates. Obama superdelegate Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) responded to this with what he called "an extraordinary concession, in order to promote reconciliation with Florida's voters" -- the seating of half of his own state's delegates. Sounds like a recipe for half-reconciliation to me, but then again, I'm neither a Floridian nor a Democrat; for all I know, they may appreciate things being done half way down there (at least in Wexler's district).

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