Posted by Jed Lewison on Sat May 31, 2008 at 12:31 PM Pacific

Clinton camp claims likely Florida deal as a victory

Howard Wolfson just effectively declared victory on Florida even though it doesn't appear that the Florida delegation will be seated at full strength.

What he focused on was that the vote in Florida was the basis for vote allocation. This seems to confirm what the Ickes-Levin exchange suggested: the Clinton camp's main goal in Michigan is getting the Clinton votes counted for her and the uncommitted votes counted as uncommitted (and not for Obama), allowing them to make their (false) popular vote argument.

It's sort of weird, because the popular vote argument is so flawed that I don't understand why they think it matters whether the votes are used to allocate delegates.

Update: Chuck Todd says that Clinton doesn't want Michigan to be resolved today, for it to be punted to the credentials committee, but he says she doesn't have the votes for this on the RBC. If the RBC did make this punt it would be a disaster.

Update 2: I should have made it clear that Clinton declaring FL as a victory is a very good thing for Obama. Resolution is good. It means that Michigan is the only open area.

Clinton camp claims likely Florida deal as a victory

Howard Wolfson just effectively declared victory on Florida even though it doesn't appear that the Florida delegation will be seated at full strength.

What he focused on was that the vote in Florida was the basis for vote allocation. This seems to confirm what the Ickes-Levin exchange suggested: the Clinton camp's main goal in Michigan is getting the Clinton votes counted for her and the uncommitted votes counted as uncommitted (and not for Obama), allowing them to make their (false) popular vote argument.

It's sort of weird, because the popular vote argument is so flawed that I don't understand why they think it matters whether the votes are used to allocate delegates.

Update: Chuck Todd says that Clinton doesn't want Michigan to be resolved today, for it to be punted to the credentials committee, but he says she doesn't have the votes for this on the RBC. If the RBC did make this punt it would be a disaster.

Update 2: I should have made it clear that Clinton declaring FL as a victory is a very good thing for Obama. Resolution is good. It means that Michigan is the only open area.

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