TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The boycott is over. Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton both will be in Florida today after avoiding the state since last fall.
Obama is seeking to mend fences in a key general election state snubbed by the Democratic National Committee. Clinton is continuing her push to have the state’s primary count and its delegates seated at the party’s national convention in Denver in August.
Both candidates signed a pledge nine months ago that kept them from campaigning here before the Jan. 29 primary. Other than a rally Clinton held after polls closed that night, neither candidate has campaigned here since the DNC stripped Florida of its delegates in September because its primary was held before Feb. 5.
Members of the DNC rules committee may decide whether to restore delegates to Florida — as well as Michigan, which also was stripped of its delegates — when they meet May 31. The Associated Press
