I was web surfing tonight and came across this Salon.com article by Walter Shapiro. Shapiro knocks down any Clinton claims to take it to the convention.
The New Math in Florida and Michigan
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For all the huffing, puffing, and chest thumping from Harold Ickes today, it turns out the Clinton campaign CANNOT appeal to the credentials committee. Walter Shapiro tells us why.
In theory, Saturday's rules committee Michigan decision can be appealed to a new body -- the convention's Credentials Committee, when it comes into existence in July. Ickes, in fact, raised just that specter in his final remarks on the Michigan vote and the Clinton acolytes in the audience chanted, "Denver! Denver!" But, in reality, a formal challenge of Saturday's decision can only be brought by a Michigan convention delegate, not by the Clinton campaign itself. The odds are prodigious that -- under almost any scenario -- the four votes that Clinton theoretically lost in the rules committee will not matter by Denver.
Yes, I'm sure the Clinton campaign can find a delegate willing to make a stink to the credentials committee, but it just won't resonate as much as would if it were HRC herself. I didn't think it would be a big deal anyway on the small chance she did take it to the committee. But some folks were worried, so here you are.
Folks, it really is over!