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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Democratic Party leaders agreed Saturday seat Michigan and Florida delegates with half votes into this summer's convention with a compromise that left Barack Obama on the verge of the nomination but riled Hillary Rodham Clinton backers who threatened to fight to the August convention.Read the full story
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
The Michigan compromise, details of which must still be worked out, would give the majority of delegates to Clinton, who won 55 percent of the vote in the state's primary. Those with knowledge of the RBC's inner dealings say the potential deal involves all of the candidates who took their ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Hillary Clinton has lost a ton of my respect over the past few months and continues to lose the remainder of it. An open letter like this isn't a way to solve a problem, it's just confrontational. She's made the Florida and Michigan issue worse with her intellectual dishonesty over ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
A relatively minor glitch in Florida’s electrical grid somehow triggered a chain reaction Tuesday that caused a nuclear plant to shut down and briefly cut power in patches from Daytona Beach through the Florida Keys.Read the full story
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
The Democratic National Committee has said it will strip the Sunshine State of its 210 nominating convention delegates if it doesn\\\\\\\'t abide by the party-set calendar, which forbids most states from holding primary contests before Feb. 5.Read the full story
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