MIAMI, FL - Patti Solis Doyle, Howard Wolfson and Mark Penn conducted a conference call earlier today arguing the importance of Florida's vote. Asked repeatedly by skeptical members of the media why the Clinton campaign is suddenly so interested - even vested - in the idea that Florida is important, Team Clinton made a number of different points, but the central one seemed to be this: because Florida represents such a large and varied constituency, and because Florida Democrats turned out in record numbers despite being told by the national party their votes were essentially meaningless, the voters are sending a signal and deserve to be heard.

All three echoed the refrain that the Florida delegates deserve to be seated.

"We hope and we expect the Florida delegates will be seated, as well as the delegates in Michigan," Solis Doyle said ."With this level of participation we just don't believe the convention won't seat the delegates from one of the most important delegations in the country."

Moments later Mark Penn said the same thing: "Record numbers of Floridians are participating and I think they'd be stunned to learn if, in the end, their votes were not counted at the Democratic National Convention. They are an active part of the Democratic party and they have 27 electoral votes in the general election, and I think that the signal they're sending is that they fully expect this to be resolved in a way that seats their delegates."

Wolfson was even more succinct: "I can't envision circumstances in which, at the end of the day, these delegations are not seated."

The decision of the Clinton camp to aggressively push forward on the issue of seating these delegations has the potential to open new fissures and create more acrimony within an already roiling party. This is just the beginning of what could be a very dramatic - and ugly - story.