Clinton Supporters Unhappy with FL, MI Compromises

clipped from www.mcclatchydc.com Just as Democrats headed toward the final votes of the long primary season with hopes of wrapping up the nomination, a party panel Saturday triggered what could be a bitter fight lasting through the summer and on to the Democratic National Convention. The Rules and Bylaws Committee of the Democratic National Committee voted to restore delegate votes to Florida and Michigan, two states that had been stripped of all their votes for holding primaries too early in violation of party rules. But it outraged Clinton supporters, many of whom stormed out of the meeting. And it prompted Clinton herself to tell her point man on the panel, Harold Ickes, that she reserved the right to take a challenge to the decision to the party's credentials committee later this summer and perhaps to the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August.

When Ickes says Clinton "reserves the right" to take this to the credentials committee, he's not saying she will. If that's what he meant, that's what he would've said. I come away from that thinking the decision hasn't been made yet.

Other reports have Clinton "resigned" to losing the nom.