I know, I mean Clinton was working hard to make sure this didn't happen right from the very start of the campaign....wait, that's not true.  Ha, it's almost as if she only cares now b/c it might be politically expediant...

People ask me why I'm flogging this issue so much. The thing that boils my blood here--and I really think IS the emerging story--is the pattern of hypocrisy by Obama. The Obama campaign repeatedly lately uses general comments that sound good, but are left deliberately open to interpretation. It is just like the garbage that we've been getting from the Bush administration for the last eight years. Whenever they say something you suspect there is something sneaky and wrong with it--that it is a deliberate attempt to mislead. I've had enough of being continually being mislead. We don't need another misleader.

Oh yeah, that, and if we stiff Florida and Michigan John McCain will win the presidency, we'll get three more "conservative" Supreme Court Justices, and my kids will grow up in a coutry I don't even want to think about.

I'm for a fair revote. What I want is for Florida and Michigan to be represented so they don't turn on the Democratic nominee in the general election.

Think I'm just blowing smoke. Here's what one Michigan resident thinks of being disenfranchised:

the arrogance is stunning

Florida is a throw away now, "Mr and Mrs. Sixpack" in Michigan will vote Democratic regardless of how the state is treated. Wow.

Let's walk through the path to disenfranchisement, shall we? Let's assume the Michigan/Florida problem is not settled in a way that actually includes the will of the voters in Michigan -- say they aren't seated at all or the delegates are split 50/50.

I'm a typical Michigan voter and this story has been on the front page of the two major papers on and off for months. I'm at risk of losing my job, my wife has lost hers, I'm surrouding by "for sale" signs in my neighbors' lawns, all the politicians out there seem all so concerned about the ECONOMY but no one seems to give a wet rat's ass what the people of Michigan think.

Am I going to listen to my union? Hell no, they helped get me into this mess. Jennifer Granholm? Kwame Kilpatrick? What has a Democrat done for me lately?

Now here comes the Democratic Convention. Oh look! The entire country matters except for the people in my state and Florida. Our chairs are essentially empty. Awesome how voters in Guam got a say in this but not me...because the Democrats in my state tried to push our agenda to the forefront and the party shut us down in favor of the will of New Hampshire. So much for post-convention bump.

Nobody needs to worry about my problems, the national press and the Democratic contender have made it clear I'll vote Democratic no matter how I'm crapped on.

Yeah, watch me.

Stop thinking purely Obama v. Clinton for one second and think about winning this election against John McCain in the fall. We are not going to do it without Michigan and Florida.

The kettle is calling.

Clearly, you must have omitted the "S" before the "h" in SHE.

How can Obama be burning down the Dems when he is ahead in every category...categories the HRC camp FORMERLY professed as being important.

Uh...isn't a primary a synonym for "nomination"?

Statute:

>>(2)  The following elections may not be conducted by mail ballot:

(a)  An election at which any candidate is nominated, elected, retained, or recalled; or<<

Aren't we picking our nominee?