David Broder has a typically lame column today on addressing the problem of seating delegations from Florida and Michigan. Of the various options thrown around, many seem to focus on (a) using the results of the discredited primaries; but (b) cutting those states delegations in half.

This approach is doubly wrong because the results from those earlier contests are entirely bogus and cutting those delegations in half will create a lot of bad feeling in two key states among those who like to join the party in Denver.

Here is a much more elegant solution:

In the next two weeks Howard Dean holds a press conference and announces his support for a plan that will seat full delegations from both states with delegates apportioned by a formula that will represent each candidate's percentage share of pledged delegates after the last primary is held in early June. For example, if Obama and Clinton split pledged delegates 53% to 47% during the entire primary season, that would represent the composition of the Florida and Michigan delegations.

The double benefits of this approach is that full delegations are seated from both states, but the delegations will reflect -- but not influence -- the outcome in the race for pledged delegates.

What do YOU think?