Mike Allen's Politico Playbook Daily Update

Hello Everyone,

Evelyn here,

with an excerpt from ''Mike Allen's Politico Playbook Daily Update" for today Sunday, June 01, 2008.

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"This is Barack Obama’s party now"

By: MIKE ALLEN

Jun 01, 2008 08:26 AM EST

***The Chicago Sun-Times cover has Senator Obama with his eyes closed: 'OBAMA QUITS TRINITY.' Broke at dinnertime. Deets below.

TOP STORY: NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd, on MSNBC after yesterday's decision by the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee to seat the Florida and Michigan delegations at half strength: 'The Democratic National Committee is not somehow controlled by the Clintons ... anymore. ... This is Barack Obama's party now.
Howard Wolfson tells Playbook that the Clinton campaign will pushing a popular-vote message hard for the next 72 hours: 'When the voting concludes on Tuesday, more Americans will have voted for Senator Clinton than Senator Obama. The last time the Democrats didn't give the nomination to the candidate who won the most votes was in 1972.' (George McGovern over Hubert Humphrey.)

APPENDIX, FROM DNC:

RBC MEETING FACT SHEET
May 31, 2008

FLORIDA

Adopted a modified version of the Ausman challenge which:

• Seats all delegates from Florida pledged and unpledged.
• Each delegate casts ½ vote. That goes for pledged delegates and unpledged delegates (superdelegates.)
• Delegates:
• Pledged total: 185 delegates casting 92.5 votes.
• Senator Clinton: 105 delegates casting 52.5 votes.
• Senator Obama: 67 delegates casting 33.5 votes.
• Senator Edwards: 13 delegates casting 6.5 votes.
• 26 unpledged delegates casting 13 votes.
• Candidates will have the opportunity to approve new people to fill delegate slots if desired. (i.e. re-slate delegates)

MICHIGAN

Adopted a modified version of the Michigan Leadership Plan which:

• Seats all delegates from Michigan pledged and unpledged.
• Each delegate casts ½ vote. That goes for pledged delegates and unpledged delegates (superdelegates.)
• Compromise allocation of delegates:
• Pledged total: 128 delegates casting 64 votes.
• Senator Clinton: 69 delegates casting 34.5 votes.
• Senator Obama: 59 delegates casting 29.5 votes.
• 29 unpledged delegates casting 14.5 votes.
• Candidates will have the opportunity to approve new people to fill delegate slots if desired. (i.e. re-slate delegates)

TOTAL NUMBER OF DELEGATES:

As of May 31, the revised total of delegate votes needed to secure the nomination is 2,118.

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Evelyn out.