LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Democrats met Saturday to choose their first round of national convention delegates, even though the state has been stripped of its delegates by the Democratic National Committee.
Party members were selecting 83 delegates and 15 alternates at 15 district conventions. Delegates were allocated according to the results of the Jan. 15 primary, which Hillary Rodham Clinton won. An official list of delegates and alternates was to be released early this week by the Michigan Democratic Party.
Forty percent of Michigan voters in the Democratic primary backed “uncommitted” after candidates Barack Obama, John Edwards and two others removed their names from the ballot. Competition for those 36 delegates and two uncommitted seats, all of which are expected to go to Obama backers, was intense.
