There will be delegates—from Florida and Michigan

Tue, February 05, 2008 - 5:28 PM

Looks like Democrats from Florida and Michigan may yet be wearing funny hats and waving signs in Denver.

Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean all but told Wolf Blitzer on CNN just now that at Florida and Michigan Democrats will be seated.the party’s national convention in Denver in August. The states were stripped of their convention delegates for jumping ahead of the Democrats’ calendar for primaries and caucuses.

Dean was still cagey and refused to predict all will be well. But he did say the two states will ask for reinstatement, and it will be up to the credentials committee and the convention itself. “At the end of the day we want a unified party, including Florida and Michigan,” Dean said.

He also said it was not in the party’s best interest to have a divided convention, as Democrats did in 1968, 1972 and 1980.

That “resulted in losses each time,” he said.
-- Marsha Mercer