Dean: FL and MI will be seated

AP: "...Dean also said the Michigan and Florida delegates will be seated at the convention. But he won't force a resolution because he said there's nothing the Obama and Clinton campaigns can support at this point.  You bring both sides together and say, 'Don't you think it's time that the two campaigns made a deal on how we're going to do this?'" Dean said. "Let me just say that the campaigns believe that kind of a deal is premature right now."

UPDATE: But on MSNBC Dean implied Florida and Michigan would likely remain unresolved until later in the summer after superdelegates crown a nominee: "I'd like to see the superdelegates make their wishes known early on an individual basis. I don't think we can have a convention of superdelegates, but I do think it's a good idea to have the superdelegates -- they're going to have to decide by August, and they'll do their party and their country a service by deciding
publicly beforehand. And then we'll know who the nominee is and then we'll be able to deal with the Florida and Michigan problem."

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They will only seat them if Obama looks like the winner even with FL & MI.

If it's too close with FL & MI, they will disenfranchise one or both of our states.

Either way, Obama & Clinton ignored us before our primaries.

Don't come begging for our votes or money in November. My vote is going to moderate John McCain.

Here is a solution Dean just follow the rules. Just like you have been quoted over and over again saying "I will not change the rules in the middle of the game. Reading the Democratic Party Charter the National Convention is the highest authority in the party. Every state must be represented at the convention. And, that is not suppose to be achieved through the Credential committee.
So in nutshell you have the power not the candidates to fix this problem through the Rules&Bylaws committee. Who even have the power to implement their own delegate plan for Michigan.
Now in the case of Florida the challenge needs to be heard and resolved immediately. RBC screwed up and didn't adhere to the charter or the Delegate selection rules. Just stand up to your RBC and have them implement the 50% reduction like they were suppose to. Forget all this talk of 50/50 just go by the RULES...

Count Florida’s votes as votes, split Florida’s Delegates 50/50, drop Michigan’s inequitable votes, split Michigan’s Delegates 50/50, vote every incumbent out of office!

Problem Solved!

and btw... now, I will never attend a Chasco Fiesta. Get rid of these obnoxious pop-up ads

[Ima Fedup]

This issue should have already been resolved. Dean and the DNC have already disenfranchised my vote. They can just go "Holler and Waller" as far as I'm concerned!!

9 a.m., 50-50 works for Florida's voters, and for that matter Michigan's, but not for Sen. Clinton. 50-50, makes sense and would not disenfranchise voters, but Sen. Clinton needs the argument is she's to take this to convention. So she needs Florida, just not in the way you would have thought.

The issue is Hillary won Florida. Both candidates were on the ballot. Neither campaigned here so how's that give Hillary the advantage over Obama?

Michigan is a totally different story. There has to be a do-over before delegates are seated because Obama's name wasn't on the ballot.

Obama has it -- and of course whoever has it will seat the delegates.

NAA Reveals Biggest Ad Revenue Plunge in More Than 50 Years

By Jennifer Saba

Published: March 28, 2008 12:55 PM ET

NEW YORK The newspaper industry has experienced the worst drop in advertising revenue in more than 50 years.

According to new data released by the Newspaper Association of America, total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunged 9.4% to $42 billion compared to 2006 -- the most severe percent decline since the association started measuring advertising expenditures in 1950.

The drop-off points to an economic slowdown on top of the secular challenges faced by the industry. The second worst decline in advertising revenue occurred in 2001 when it fell 9.0%.

Total advertising revenue in 2007 -- including online revenue -- decreased 7.9% to $45.3 billion compared to the prior year.

There are signs that online revenue is beginning to slow as well. Internet ad revenue in 2007 grew 18.8% to $3.2 billion compared to 2006. In 2006, online ad revenue had soared 31.4% to $2.6 billion. In 2005, it jumped 31.4% to $2 billion.

As newspaper Web sites generate more advertising revenue, the growth rate naturally slows.

The NAA reported that online revenue now represents 7.5% of total newspaper ad revenue in 2007 compared to 5.7% in 2006.

That growth could not stave off the losses in the print however. National print advertising revenue dropped 6.7% to $7 billion last year. Retail slipped 5% to $21 billion. Classified plunged 16.5% to $14.1 billion.

"Even with the near-term challenges posed to print media by a more fragmented information environment and the economic headwinds facing all advertising media, newspapers publishers are continuing to drive strong revenue growth from their increasingly robust Web platforms," John Sturm, president and CEO of the NAA, said in a statement.
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This just further shows the dividved leadership of the Democrats. Perhaps they should watch Jim Greer to see how a real leader acts.

Sure... all the Democrats--candidates and national operatives, were hoping the issue would be settled early thereby allowing the news to move past the fact that they disenfranchised several million Americans.

Now, if only the super delegates would decide the issue then Dean, Hillary or Obama could be "off the hook." They could close the circle by "allowing" the meaningless votes. As long as they actually mean something, they can't be counted and the embarrassing form of democracy prevalent in the Democratic Party stands front and center.

They must think voters are a stupid bunch of sheep. Take our votes away and we'll just forgive and embrace you later on.....right!

The best thing that can happen for the Democrats is a locked-up convention and a turn to a candidate who had nothing to do with the vote voiding. That candidates first act should be to trade Howling Howie Dean to the Republicans for two future draft picks to be named later.