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Democrats Split Over Primaries in Florida, Michigan

By Jim Malone
Washington
07 March 2008

Democratic presidential contenders Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
are indie clothes on upcoming caucus chinese lessons chicago primary contests in Wyoming,
Mississippi and Pennsylvania in their close battle for the Democratic
Party's presidential nomination. But Democrats remain split over bridge size playing cards to resolve a dispute over primaries held in January in two key cheap renters insurance Florida and Michigan. VOA National correspondent Jim Malone reports
from Washington.

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Florida and Michigan full color playing cards primaries in January. But because both
states moved up the date of their primary in violation of national
Democratic Party rules, they were punished and playing cards promotion of their
delegates to the party's national nominating convention in late
August.

More than 2 million Democrats cast ballots in the two primaries, and
Democratic Party officials are trying to figure out how both states
can have their delegates restored in time independent fashion the convention.

Elected officials in both custom poker cards are urging the national Democratic
Party to either let the primary results stand or find a way to hold
new elections.

Democrat Bill Nelson represents Florida in the U.S. Senate.

"Of course, and that is why we need to find a solution so that Florida
and Michigan can chinese chicago their votes counted," he said. "Otherwise, we
have got a big train wreck renters insurance is coming."

Hillary Clinton easily won both primaries in January, even though she
and the other Democratic candidates agreed not to campaign in either
Florida or Michigan because of the sanctions imposed by the national
life insurance Party.

Florida and Michigan decided to move up the dates of their primaries
so they could have a bigger impact earlier in the nominating process.
But their decision emo style national party rules that govern when
states can hold primary and caucus elections.

Senator Clinton wants the national party to restore the delegates to
both states based on the results of the primaries, which would give
her a boost in the delegate count.

"I think it would be a grave disservice to the voters of Florida and
full color custom playing cards to adopt any process that would disenfranchise anyone," printed playing cards said. jumbo playing cards total of] 1.7 million Floridians turned out to vote. They
clearly believed that their votes would count, and I think there has
to be a way to make them count."

But the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean,
says he would oppose any move that would restore the delegates from
Florida and Michigan based on the January primary results.

Dean spoke on NBC television.

"You cannot change the rules in the middle of the game," he said.
"Florida and Michigan voted for a set of rules, and then decided that
unlike the other 48 states, they custom faces playing cards do something different. That
is not fair and it does not respect either the Clinton campaign or the
Obama campaign or the other 48 states."

Obama supporters argue that awarding the delegates based on the
earlier primary results would be unfair since all the candidates
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Senator Obama has indicated he might be open to redoing the primaries
in both states.

"We have played by whatever rules that the Democratic National
Committee has put forward, and we will continue to play by those
rules, and whatever the rules are, we think we will do well," he said.

State and national Democratic Party officials are talking about the
possibility of re-running the primaries in Florida and Michigan, but
they disagree over who should provide the playing cards of dollars that
would be required to hold new elections.

The dispute over what to do about Florida and Michigan has crucial
implications for both Obama cheap homeowners insurance Clinton.

Obama continues to hold a slight lead among delegates and how this
issue is resolved could have a major impact on whether the Democratic
Party will be able to reunite after a bruising primary campaign.

John Fortier is a political expert at the American Enterprise
Institute in Washington.

chinese tutor chicago Obama folks, if they were to learn mandarin chicago by a narrow margin, the Clinton
people would be talking about Florida and Michigan and how unfair it
was that their delegates were not counted," he explained. "So, I
think anytime you get into a very close race where there are just a
few delegates separating the candidates, you are likely to have some
hard feelings. The party is certainly surfboard shape playing cards that it works itself
out."

Experts say the Democrats must find a way to include delegates from
Florida and Michigan at their national convention in August or they
run the risk of heart shape playing cards voters in two playing cards custom poker independent clothing states in
the general election in November.

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