Harold Meyerson reports that yesterday's Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting is a sign of problems to come if Clinton continues her campaign:
In the end, the Clinton camp was undercut by its own supporters and by the state parties it purported to defend.Yesterday's Rules Committee meeting began with Florida's state party essentially conceding that its delegation should be seated only at 50 percent strength. The pro-Obama committee members responded by backing the apportionment of the half-strength delegation precisely along the lines of the primary vote. In the end, the Clinton delegates supported the compromise; Clinton supporter Alice Huffman, a longtime protégé and ally of California's legendary onetime Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, told the Clinton diehards, as Willie had told his own troops on countless occasions, to suck it up and move on -- to Michigan, where they would stand and fight and yell and threaten.
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