Kucinich Floats Plan to Resolve Florida, Michigan Delegate Disputes [View All]

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Source: Congressional Quarterly

CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS
April 30, 2008 – 7:55 p.m.
Kucinich Floats Plan to Resolve Florida, Michigan Delegate Disputes

By Jonathan Allen, CQ Staff
Former Democratic presidential candidate Dennis J. Kucinich has proposed a plan to seat delegations from Florida and Michigan at the Democratic National Convention based on the results of a fresh round of polling in the two states.

The Democratic Party stripped the states of their delegates as punishment for holding primaries in January in violation of rules designed to preserve the role of early primary states, including Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, in the nominating process. Kucinich’s proposal, a copy of which was obtained by CQ Politics Wednesday, has been circulating among Democratic members of the House for nearly a week.

The plan would base the distribution of delegates on polling conducted by three firms, one selected by each campaign and a third chosen by the other two companies. Delegates would be apportioned based on the composite findings of the three polls. None of the firms could have previously been employed by either campaign.

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In his letter to colleagues, Kucinich noted that his is a less-than-perfect plan for rectifying a less-than-ideal situation: “Simple, accurate and cost effective, this solution is nevertheless no substitute for actual voting,” he wrote. “But it is better than any other solution proposed thus far.”

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