And about Michigan ...

By Jennifer J. Foster

Published: May 13, 2008

You know that the DNC’s rules committee will meet on May 31 to consider the fate of the Michigan and Florida delegations for the party’s national convention in August.

One argument they’ll hear:

Michigan Democratic leaders on Wednesday settled on a plan to give presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton 69 delegates and Barack Obama 59 as a way to get the state’s delegates seated at the national convention.

Complete story here.

Had Michigan not been penalized for its too-early Jan. 15 primary, party rules would have awarded 73 pledged delegates to Clinton and 55 to Obama as a result of Clinton’s win in that state—where his name was not even on the ballot.