{"id":671,"date":"2008-03-03T10:29:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T15:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/03\/03\/new-florida-primary\/"},"modified":"2008-03-06T09:45:39","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T14:45:39","slug":"new-florida-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/03\/03\/new-florida-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"New Florida Primary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Charlie Crist (R) says <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/bloomberg\/20080302\/pl_bloomberg\/a_z1b1gct_nm_1\">he&#8217;s open to holding another Democratic primary<\/a> in his state.  As you recall, the Democratic National Committee has (thus far) held to the position that no Florida delegates would be seated at the nominating convention, and thus Florida would have no say in the nomination.  This was all done as punishment for Florida breaking the party rules by holding its primary so early in the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic candidates did not (technically) campaign in Florida, but Hillary Clinton won the vast majority of the (unseatable delegates).  Hillary Clinton, in one of her less impressive moves, has been arguing that those delegates should be seated, couching a rather self-serving argument in terms of fairness to voters.  So far, the DNC (and the public, I hope) hasn&#8217;t been buying that argument.   Everyone knew (and agreed to) the rules before, and the consequences were clear.  Now, I suspect that Crist is trying to throw Clinton something of a lifeline here, a means of legitimizing Florida delegates.  I&#8217;m not so sure it would work in her favor, though, as I bet her majority (if any) would be much less than it was the last time around.  Her camp&#8217;s reaction to this offer (which the DNC has previously indicated it sees as a possible solution) will say something about what she&#8217;s more interested in &#8211; the will of the voters, or delegates for her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Crist now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/politics\/15503998\/detail.html\">denies<\/a> being open to a new primary &#8211; he simply wants the delegates seated, which is certainly to Clinton&#8217;s benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Charlie Crist (R) says he&#8217;s open to holding another Democratic primary in his state. As you recall, the Democratic National Committee has (thus far) held to the position that no Florida delegates would be seated at the nominating convention, and thus Florida would have no say in the nomination. This was all done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}