Clinton Campaign: We want the Michigan uncommitted to stay uncommitted

[mckeown1128]

In a conference call with reporters, Clinton Senior Adviser Harold Ickes clarified their position on Michigan -- they don't want the 55 "uncommitted" delegates to go to Obama (his name did not appear on the ballot in Michigan).

There have been reports that some of the uncommitted delegates in Michigan already selected are union supporters of Clinton. This solution, unsurprisingly, would make it much harder for Obama to clinch a pledged delegate majority.

Last week, the Clinton campaign was agnostic on the issue -- but they seem to ratcheting up the noise, or at least their negotiating position.

Ickes also mentions that the co-chairs of the Rules and Bylaws Committee -- which will rule on Florida and Michigan on May 31 -- have been holding "informal meetings" with leaders of both of the campaigns.

UPDATE: Wolfson says that most -- if not -- all of the uncommitted delegates would likely go for Obama.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Ickes_We_want_the_Michigan_uncommitted_to_stay_uncommitted.html#comments


I particularly like the deceptive Wolfson comment at the end. He's basically saying that it's ok that they don't want uncommitted to stay uncommitted because it is unlikely to happen.

I wasn't worried about any of this till I found out that 13 of the 28 dems that are on the rules committee are Hillary supporters. She has a good chance of getting exactly what she wants.

[tridim]

1. Hillary should just declare herself queen and be done with it.

She obviously doesn't give a crap about the rules in this democratic contest.

[mckeown1128]

2. Forget the rules.. this doesn't even jive with her

talking points in regards to Fl and MI. She has been ranting about the will of the voters and now her campaign is trying to say that Obama has zero support in MI.

[housewolf]

3. 13 out of 28 is less than half

She doesn't have an automatic majority

[mckeown1128]

5. She only needs 2 of the undecideds to own the rules committee. nt

[BonnieJW]

4. But 8 are for Obama and the other 7 are uncommitted.