Harold Ickes, Senior Advisor to the Clinton campaign, yawns during today’s meeting of the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee on the seating of delegates from Florida and Michigan. (Photo credit: Getty Images)
Harold Ickes, an adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), says that the Clinton campaign is practical, realizing the need to win 270 electoral votes in the November election. (0:39)
The 2.3 million votes that would be excluded at the Democratic National Convention were highlighted in a conference call with advisers to the Hillary Clinton campaign. In reference to the Florida and Michigan primaries, adviser Tina Flournoy emphasized that the January results should count, that January results should be used to allocate delegates, and that full delegates from each state should be seated and given full votes. Flournoy said that the habit of awarding half votes is a precedent that should not be set by the Democratic Party. (more…)
Harold Ickes, the senior advisor for the Hillary Campaign and Phil Singer, deputy communications director held a press conference this morning talking about the state of the presidential race. More than anything, both of the speakers were concentrated on talking about Obama rather than the candidate they are representing.
Since the democratic presidential candidate Barrack Obama stated that the Florida votes were unfair, Ickes replied back by saying it was Obama who started campaigning before he was supposed to. Ickes also mentioned the importance of a Democratic President and added by saying that Senator Obama is jeopardizing these options by ignoring the voters in Michigan.
In addition to Ickes’ statement on the voters in Michigan, Singer continued by talking about the increasing concern about the democratic ability to carry Michigan and Florida in the general election. He also mentioned that it will be very close, since McCain will be reaching out to many groups.
