(This diary is cross-posted at MyDD)
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We are close to entering the 'endgame' of this primary season. Or perhaps I should say the prelude to the endgame, since the real endgame will likely occur at the National Convention in Denver in August.
The final components of this 'middle' game are 3: Florida, Michigan, and to a lesser extent, Pennsylvania.
I wrote yesterday about my decision to not support Barack Obama in November should he be nominated. I will not support anyone who willingly disenfranchises millions of Democrats, particularly after what happened in 2000 in Florida. That is not acceptable to me, and never would be. And make no mistake: It is Obama's call. Yes, Obama's surrogates are the ones saying things like Obama will only accept a 50/50 delegate split in Michigan, but if Barack wanted it differently, he could say the word and Michigan would be 'healed,' so to speak.
But I only hear silence.
And so my choice is clear. Obama has cast his die, and thus forced me to roll my own.
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