The Florida Democratic Party is apparently giving up on any plan to have a re-vote:
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Democrats have abandoned plans to redo the presidential primary with a mostly mail-in vote.
Party leaders had expressed concerns about the proposal. The party plan was to run a second primary to seat the state’s delegates at the August convention.
The state party considered the idea because the Democratic National Committee is refusing to award delegates based on Florida’s Jan. 29 primary, in which Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won. The DNC stripped Florida of its delegates because party rules didn’t allow the state to vote before Feb. 5.
Putting us back where we were about two weeks ago and leaving the DNC with three options:
- Seat the delegates based on the January 29th primary
- Don’t seat the delegates at all; or,
- Divide the delegates 50-50
For various reasons all of these have potentially bad consequences for the party.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:58 am
It was a fair vote. All candidates were on the ballot. The Florida residents received about as much campaigning as we did in Arizona (none). But they all received a good dose of national coverage. Seat all the delegates and call it a day. Anything else would make me, and I’m assuming others, very wary of Obama. With a national primary (something we are heading for), what Florida saw is what most of us will going forward (from a campaigning standpoint).