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Michigan Offers Plan For Counting Delegates

Clinton Would Take 69 Delegates

POSTED: 5:26 am CDT May 8, 2008
UPDATED: 8:17 am CDT May 8, 2008

Michigan Democratic leaders have settled on a plan for seating a delegation at this summer's convention that would give presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton 69 delegates and Barack Obama 59.

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Clinton won the Jan. 15 Michigan primary and was to get 73 pledged delegates under state party rules, while Obama was to get 55. The state also has 29 superdelegates.

The state party's executive committee voted Wednesday to ask the national party's Rules and Bylaws Committee to approve the 69-59 delegate split when it meets May 31. The plan would allow the state's 157 delegates and superdelegates to be seated at the convention.

A separate plan submitted to the rules committee by Democratic National Committee members Joel Ferguson of Michigan and Jon Ausman of Florida, both superdelegates, apparently will be withdrawn now that the Michigan executive committee has settled on the 69-59 plan.

The DNC stripped Michigan and Florida of their convention delegates - 366 in all, including pledged delegates and superdelegates - for holding their primaries too early in the nominating process, which violated party rules.

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