Hillary doesn't want a compromise on MI and FL. She wants all the votes. The DNC will never go along with that, so there's no longer any reason for the supers to hold back. She just cut her last lifeline.

back to the drawing board to figure out the actual votes, not just the delegates.  

Damn, she has to accept she won't get the Delegate Split out of MI as it was in January nor the 600.000 + Votes. It just shows how desperate she is.

Good for her

None of this matters anymore. Even with MI & FL seated full force at the convention, and even if she wins ALL pledged delegates left, Obama only needs 20 or so superdelegates.

MI & FL are wholly irrelevant now.

therefore, Hillary has every right to insist that all votes cast be represented, and delegates awarded proportionately.

   that she's not interested in seating the delegation. She's only interested in improving her delegate total. After that, to hell with it.

  Just more proof of what I've been saying all along.

Wow.

embraces gives him delegates he did not earn.  Why should Hillary accept it?  If Obama is all so spit certain he will be the nominee, why not just let Michigan's delegates be what Michiganders voted to have happen.

...as being Obama's fault?  

There's no way that the party is going to flip the election based on Michigan.  There would be riots and no one who didn't already support Clinton would see her nomination as legitimate.

He's got the nomination locked up, it would be a great political move, why doesn't he do it? It makes him look small.

He needs to look beyond November and think about long term party-building. He will need Congress as majority Dems for his presidency.

how entirely sick of this the MI legislature is.  Three separate attempts to schedule a re-vote failed.  This has taken tons of time, caused lots of embarrassment, and potentially disenfranchised an entire state.

It was work to arrive at this compromise.  Senator Clinton could at least have considered it, but she replied immediately "no deal."  I don't think a better deal for her will ever be forthcoming from MI.

This is like the abortion issue for Karl Rove?

The Clinton campaign doesn't want this settled, because SOMETHING has to keep feeding the troops, some outrage, something to hang on to?

If this off the table, what will all the Clinton Jihadists around here keep throwing on the table?

She doesn't care if who she pisses off in MI or anywhere else, it's the bunker mentality writ large?

Means, the end is rapidly approaching, so there is nothing to lose by compromising on anything, because that brings the end nearer.

The Clintons are dead in the water.  The democrats are going to have to crush her.  She will not go quietly.  I pick tomorrow as the day to do it.

she did right thing. she will prevail or MI will be be in GOP's column

<snark>Why, oh why, is Clinton blocking the seating of MI?! The votes must be counted! Doesn't she care about democracy??!</snark>

The entire Michigan result is tainted.  The voters were told beforehand that the primary would not be counted.  The candidates (including Clinton) acknowledged this and pledged not to participate or campaign in the state.  Major candidates removed their names from the ballot.

How can anyone look at that result and, with a straight face, argue that it represents a democratic result?

I have no strong preference on the exact breakdown of delegates, but something fairly equitable is warranted.  Pretending that the actual votes counted have substantive democratic value is dishonest.

Of course she did.  If she accepted the Michigan compromise, there wouldn't be any reason for her not to accept a similar compromise in Florida - and without Michigan and Florida still up in the air, her rationale for continuing becomes even more outlandish than it already is.

Take a step back, and this is actually a fair deal.  The split assumes that in a MI primary Clinton would have beat Obama by 8 points.  If anything that's slightly generous.  MI is in the rust belt but also has Detroit.  Clinton would never have racked up a higher % of the vote than she did in Ohio or Pennsylvania.

Of course, if Clinton took this deal she'd be that much closer to conceding, and her diehard supporters would have to give up this fantasy that Clinton would have won if it weren't for MI and FL.  Thank god this race only has a few more weeks to go.

This is a perfect example of why superdelegates are not flocking to endorse her.

They would have to seriously consider: Do we as a party really want to put up with her bs for the next eight years?

That alone will drive supers to Barack...along with his many other positives.

She really doesn't have much leverage to be demanding these things anymore.  The proposed delegate split seems reasonable.

I don't understand. Obama supporters Michigan and Florida be stripped of their delegates, their primary votes not be recognized, rules are rules, etc.

Now they're falling over themselves supporting this?

Your commitment to the voters of these states must be clearly stated and your support for a fair and quick resolution must be clearly demonstrated.

I believe Senator Obama quickly supported the fair resolution that Michigan Democrats came up with.  Senator Clinton should read this back to herself instead.

Before this I felt she should be humored and allowed to go on to save face. But with this stance I feel the SDs should go ahead an embarrass the heck out of her and go for Obama en masse and make it obvious she is toast. I hope her crowds get smaller and smaller and the media keeps crowding her out of the conversation. I don't think she'll be in this much longer.

"We cannot ignore the fact that the people in those states took the time to be a part of this process and to make their preferences known."

We can, however, apparently ignore the fact that Michigan voters were largely denied the right to make their preferences known when most major candidates (other than Clinton) were not even on the ballot.

Their proposal is ridiculous giving the outcome of the primary, that is why she rejected it. Unless they count the votes what is the purpose in the delegate count, what difference is that going to make? Obama wents weeks, even months rejecting every proposal out there for Michigan and Florida, and now he wants to accept, of course realizing that it won't affect the outcome any for him. Come ON!

Wow!  I am sure this makes Clinton just super duper popular in Michigan now.  The Supers and the DNC must be just overjoyed by this too.  Love!  Love and warm fuzzies!

The only new piece of information here is that Hillary has refused a compromise for MI that was favorable to her, halfway between Obama's position and her position, and to which Obama agreed. She is now the one preventing Michigan voters from being heard.

You gotta laugh at how off in a different universe some of the public statements of the Clinton campaign are sometimes.

I have consistently said that the votes cast in Florida and Michigan in January should be counted.

Well I suppose you've been consistent since mid January but the record grows more hazy before that...

Your commitment to the voters of these states must be clearly stated and your support for a fair and quick resolution must be clearly demonstrated.

Uh.... didn't he just demonstrate his support for a fair and quick resolution by agreeing to this plan?

every vote to count...what is the problem?

I don't understand why we can't simply give Obama the undecided delegates. Clinton won MI. Was it fair, that is debatable, but this plan takes away delegates from Clinton and gives it to Obama who purposefully and knowingly removed his name from the MI ballot. Give Clinton the delegates she earned and let Obama have the undecided delegates. If Obama is so sure he is going to win this thing, then there is nothing to lose.

Count all the votes. Give Hillary her share of delegates from Michigan. Split the rest of the undeclared delegates to the candidates who removed their names from the ballot. These delegates can go undeclared to the convention. Would that be fair?