Since no one else has decided to blog it around here...I will.
Rep. Bart Stupak, a former Edwards supporter, has come up with a plan to seat the delegates in his home state of Michigan and at first glance, I don't see an issue with it.
So here's the plan in a nutshell;
Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., in a letter to DNC Chairman Howard Dean, proposed that Michigan's 83 pledged delegates be chosen at congressional district conventions according to the results of the state's primary.
Under Stupak's formula, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who received 55 percent of the primary vote, would receive 47 delegates.
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, who pulled his name from Michigan's ballot, would receive 36 delegates. Many Obama supporters in Michigan voted for "uncommitted," which received 40 percent in the primary.
The remaining 73 delegates would be awarded based on the percentage of the popular vote garnered nationwide by Clinton and Obama after the last Democratic presidential primary is completed.
I'm one who thinks Michigan and Florida should be seated and there needs to be some deal worked out. I was in favor of a revote. I think Obama would've taken Michigan in a revote, but still lost Florida, but it wouldn't have mattered. It still really doesn't matter and will either matter less or more after Pennsylvania, Indiana and North Carolina.
This not worth risking in the GE and they're not states the Democrats have an easy time winning. Even Michigan was shakey for Kerry there for a while.
Stupak said in an interview that a redo vote in Michigan was a "dead deal" and he hoped party leaders would support an alternative. He discussed his plan with Clinton and Obama supporters in Michigan. "No one discouraged me," he said.
Now I'm sure some of you, if not most of you, will find issue with this, so I'm opening up the floor.