Quite frankly they shouldn’t have changed the rules and should have just not seated the delegates at all. It really won’t make much of a difference in the end. The media has already chosen the DNC nominee….

It struck odd that there was so little complaint from Florida for their being lumped in with the likes of Michigan, but alas. The cases for the two states were really quite different.

That was when the committee was meeting, alas. It’s like when testimony for Plan B and the cost-of-living adjustment for non-profits gets mixed up in the lege — you simply hear the testimony when the committee meets, which may not be that often.

In Florida, a Republican-dominated legislature and a Republican Governor signed an elections reform bill that mandated a paper trail for electronic voting machines and moved the Florida primary to January 29.

The Democrats in FL wanted to go along with it — every other cycle, the media coverage of early primaries and caucuses does far more to decide the winner than delegates do, so they made the bet that they’d be more influential without their delegates. They bet wrong. Oops.

Nonetheless, they had the option (which most other states already do) of either switching to a party-run primary or a party-run caucus, and allocating the delegates based on those results. They didn’t do so, because a) it would cost the state party money, and b) Clinton supporters wanted the lopsided results to stand.

I think it sucks that either of them got any delegates back — we’ll never be able to kick Iowa and NH back in the calendar unless our committees make the sanctions stick.

(And the GOP, I’d note, doesn’t base the delegates determined by caucuses on presidential preference at all in many places — Maine, Hawaii, Louisiana, Colorado… and in Montana, ordinary Republican voters don’t get a chance to vote for the GOP nominee at all, since the caucuses are invitation-only.)

It rightly prompted a legitimate question. This group of people could barely govern themeselves. How would they go about trying to govern the Free World?

We can all sleep easier at night knowing that neither the DNC Rules and Bylaws committee or Chris Healy “govern the Free World.”

As for the shouters, well, Clinton lost, so those people are out in the street now. So sad. I understand that Ron Paul supporters have brought some similar hilarity to state GOP conventions, right?