WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY.
The committee voted to seat Florida’s and Michigan’s delegates, though both states will have only half-votes. The move brought Obama’s delegate total to 2,052 and Clinton’s to 1,877.5 and increased the number necessary for nomination to 2,118, according to The Associated Press.
WHAT’S AHEAD.
Appeals of the committee’s decision can be made to the party’s 186-member credentials committee, which is charged with deciding which delegates should be seated at the convention. Harold Ickes, a Clinton adviser, said yesterday that she will “reserve the right” to appeal the Michigan decision. But even the credentials committee decision could be challenged if 20 percent of its members were to file a minority report. The issue then would go before the full convention in August
Of course not everyone is happy—Clintonistas are bitching and threatening the convention and to vote for mcCain because they did not get their way. And today is the Puerto Rican Primary and Clinton is suppose to win handily. Then on to South Dakota and Montana. We will see what we will see.