Half votes for Florida and Michigan

8.06.00am UTC (GMT +0000) Sun 1st Jun 2008

The Democratic National Committee met yesterday to discuss Florida and Michigan. It agreed to seat all the 368 delegates to the party convention, but only give them half votes.

This means they awarded in total 87 new delegates to Clinton and 63 to Obama.

Although both Florida and Michigan broke the rules and both Clinton and Obama agreed the rules, the Clinton campaign have said "This decision violates the bedrock principles of our democracy and our party," this is only ture in as far as they should not have any votes!

When the meeting began, Obama was only 42 delegates short of the 2,026 then needed to clinch the nomination, but the addition of the Florida and Michigan delegates has increased the number now needed to win to 2,118 - putting him 66 short before the allocation of the Puerto Rico delegates. Obama now has 2,053 delegates overall. Clinton has 1,877.