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The Democratic Party has met in closed door meetings to try and figure out how to deal wit the sticky issue of counting the Michigan and Florida delegates. The Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee plans to meet officially on Friday and Saturday in Washington to hammer out a compromise deal with the two states. Michigan and Florida moved up the dates of their primary votes, back in January, violating party rules for primary dates. As punishment, both state parties were told they would not be represented when the party officially nominates a presidential candidate at the August convention in Denver, Colorado.

Senator Hillary Clinton decisively won in both states, but all candidates agreed not to campaign in either one because the states had broken party rules. She has demanded all the delegates be seated and apportioned based on the results, even though there was no official campaigning in either state and Senator Barack Obama was not on the Michigan ballot. Clinton’s victories would help her narrow the gap in the delegate count, which Obama currently leads. Some Democrats said on Wednesday that the party was formulating a solution to seat only half of the delegates from each state. The Clinton campaign strongly opposes the idea.

The panel will hear three challenges when it meets this weekend. The two Florida challenges seek the seating of half of the pledged convention delegates and all of the state's superdelegates, and the Michigan challenge would award 69 pledged delegates to Clinton and 59 for Obama. If the rules panel cannot reach a compromise, the dispute heads to the party's credentials committee in July and then ultimately to the convention floor in August.