Just in via email, the Clinton campaign responds to the Obama campaign floating the possibility of seating all of the delegates out of Michigan, but with a 50/50 split. Here's campaign spokesman Phil Singer:
When it comes to counting votes, the Obama campaign seems content to only count the ones that it got. Senator Obama voluntarily removed his name from the Michigan ballot and wants a backroom deal that ignores the nearly 600,000 Americans who voted in Michigan. Instead of distorting Senator Clinton's words, the Obama campaign ought to honor the votes in Michigan and Florida, respect the bedrock principles of our democracy and stop giving the Republicans an issue to use against Democrats in the fall.
This response from the Clinton campaign isn't terribly surprising. By accepting a 50/50 split of pledged delegates out of Michigan and Florida, Hillary Clinton could have actually netted an overall increase of delegates to the convention, as superdelegates would have likely been seated along with the pledged delegates (and more Michigan superdelegates support Clinton than Barack Obama). However, such a move by the Clinton campaign might have been viewed as a crass departure from the campaign's calls to have the state's delegates reflect the sentiments of the voters in the state (whether from the January primary or another subsequent contest). As a result, there was little likelihood that the campaign was going to accept the proposal floated by the Obama campaign even if they had had some interest in doing so (and it's not clear to me at all that they had such an interest in the first place).
So the situation still seems to be very much up in the air. I'm assuming that some sort of solution is going to occur -- though such an assumption might be like those that held that the nomination process was going to wrap itself up a month or two ago. As such, it remains to be seen just what's going to happen.
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