Reply #23: Isn't awarding the delegates in this manner, [View All]

basically the same as not seating them at all? Different people will benefit from either, but essentially the DNC is telling the people of Florida the same thing, "We don't care how you voted, here's what we're going to do".

Aside from who benefits from what, I think this is a bad situation. The DNC set ground rules for the states and Florida and Michigan broke those rules. The punishment laid out was to be stripped of the delegates, and that candidates would not campaign there. To help the DNC enforce their rules, the candidates agreed. THIS WAS NOT THE CANDIDATES IDEA. The DNC even went to court for the right to strip the delegations of their vote at the convention (and won). Now, I see just recently, the DNC is essentially abdicating any responsibility for the situation and saying that seating the delegations is up to the as yet unnamed candidate, who now becomes personally responsible for the votes of millions even though they got into this situation by simply doing what their national party asked of them. This has got to create some trust issues within the DNC, as the DNC is now throwing the candidates under the bus for doing exactly what they asked them for in the first place.