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cyclezealot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 04:08 AM
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A Kucinich solution to the Fla/ Mich dilemma. /Let polls determine delegate selection .
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At this late date and the stubbornness of all parties, I see no other choice? If not, you think penalizing the Michigan / Florida parties the wise course come November.
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Kucinich wants polling to end Michigan & Florida delegate impasse

The two states were stripped of their delegates after they held January primaries in defiance of of Democratic Party rules that protect the traditional presidential candidate selection role of early-voting states like Iowa and New Hampshire.

The magazine says Kucinich is circulating a plan among Democratic House members that would base the states' delegate distribution on polling conducted by three firms, one selected by each campaign and a third chosen by the other two companies. Delegates would be apportioned based on the composite findings of the three polls. None of the firms could have previously been employed by either campaign.

"The Democratic Party faces the intolerable prospect of disenfranchising Florida and Michigan's voters from choosing our presidential nominee in this closely contested primary election," Kucinich, who represents a Cleveland-based district, wrote to his colleagues in a letter dated April 24. "This makes finding a remedy a political requirement and a democratic necessity."

http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/05/kucinich_wants_polling_to_end.html
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