Florida, Again? Someone Save Us

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were in Florida earlier this week. Looking ahead to the November election, Obama touched down in Hillsborough County along the vote-rich Interstate-4 corridor. Fifteen thousand turned out for a campaign rally in the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa.

Obama has his sights set on John McCain:

He has been spending the last week describing his foreign policy by explaining who he won't talk to. That's your foreign policy? He basically wants to perpetuate the same errors George Bush has made.

Clinton was in the voting-challenged Broward County, where she looked back at the 2000 election debacle and demanded their votes be counted:

It is well within the Democratic Party rules to take this stand. The rules clearly state that we can count all of these votes and seat all of delegates, pledged and unpledged if we so choose, and the rules laid out make clear the process for doing so.

We believe the popular vote is the truest expression of your will. We believe it today just as we believed it back in 2000, when right here in Florida, you learned the hard way what happened when the votes aren't counted and a candidate with fewer votes is declared the winner.

Clinton later told the Associated Press she's prepared to fight all the way to the Denver convention:

Yes I will. I will, because I feel very strongly about this.

I will consult with Floridians and the voters in Michigan because it's really their voices that are being ignored and their votes that are being discounted, and I'll support whatever the elected officials and the voters in those two states want to do.

The Democratic National Committee Rules and Bylaws Committee will meet in DC on May 31. They will vote on whether to seat the Florida and Michigan delegations. And yes, I will be there.