Obama Should Offer to Give Full Votes to Michigan and Florida as a Gesture for Unity

[Avalon6]

Yes, they broke the rules but as the presumptive nominee, Obama now controls the seating at the convention and could offer to give Mi/Fl full votes to put the matter behind us. Hillary supporters won't be able to use it as an excuse to not vote for Obama.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. they will vote for Obama regardless

down the road

[MichiganVote]

2. No thanks. We aren't given votes by candidates. They are a right as citizens.

[Hugabear]

4. FL and MI residents already cast their votes. Nobody has been "disenfranchised"

It's up to the DNC to decide how to allocate each state's delegates.

[AZ Criminal JD]

10. The DNC has no right to manipulate elections just because they don't like the results.

[countmyvote4real]

13. The DNC did not manipulate the primary election. They enforced the DNC rules.

Those are the rules that every state has already agreed to follow. FL was the result of the GOP controlled legislature that changed their primary date. MI was the result of the state's Democratic party desire to change the state primary date even though it was not approved by the DNC.

As a result, the Democratic primary candidates agreed to remove their names from the state ballots and not to campaign in those states because their primary votes were taken off the table. Well sort of agreed. HRC still made appearances in FL and kept her name on the MI ballot. And then when she wasn't the declared winner by super tuesday, she changed her mind about the rules she presumed to agree to follow.

The DNC in not manipulating anything. The real election manipulation is still being done by the HRC campaign, even after it's all over for them.

[gateley]

3. He's passed Hillary's magic delegate number. nt

[RL3AO]

5. They will be.

[woolldog]

6. ENOUGH CONCESSIONS.

The GOP cut MI delegates in half, and there was no fuss made about it.

[blitzen]

7. Why?

[Raine]

8. NO, there is nothing that is enough for the Clintons

they always want more, more, more. Obama should never give in to them on anyhing. I'm sorry that he didn't use all the votes he had to keep them from getting anything at the RBC.

[MannyGoldstein]

9. If There's No Penalty For Disobeying The DNC

Then mayhem will ensue.

[krawhitham]

11. it is not up to him

[scheming daemons]

12. Nope... not until she CONCEDES and goes away. Not until the convention at least...

[gristy]

14. After the game is over and the buzzer has sounded you want to give the losing team 10 points?

No. I can't support that. Seems pretty silly, not to mention a bad idea.