Who is going to pay for the return of these caucuses?The voters or the Democratic committee?Do they think we the voters should pay for their mistakes?Michigan has about 7.0+ unimployment and is hurting for money and jobs.What do you think?
Anonymous
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I think you mean the return of the delegates. If a candidate wants the reinstatement of the delegates, then I think it will be the candidate who will have to pay for the fight, not the voters. In Florida, the choice to change the primary date was not left to the voters to decide, the legislatures made the choice for us. I t was because of their motives that the Deomcratic Party in Florida will have to suffer. What gets me about the whole mess is is that the Democratic Party is the one that overtly champions the "right to vote" and that every vote should be counted. However, when it gets down to it, they were the first party to jump out and actually disenfrachise voters. Odd.
Believe you me though, since Hillary won both the Michigan and Florida primaries, if it should come down to it, she will fight for the reinstatement of those delegates. Make no mistake, it will happen in the future.
poet1b
Considering that the democrats will need these states to win the general election, they most certainly should seat their delegates.
Neither candidate campaigned in these states. Hillary was heavily favored in both states, and should get the delegates she won. Honestly, this is just more maneuvering by the democratic machine in favor of Obama.
Face the facts, Obama is the republican candidate of choice, and the old democratic machine favorite. Does anyone want another four years of a democratic version of GW.
Anonymous
I think the only option is for the DNC to fund it, if they want to seat these delegates..either that or split them evenly between Obama and Clinton and call it a day.
If they try and give them to Clinton and Obama never got the opportunity to campaign it will be a HUGE problem.