As most of you know since this controversy has been discussed in painful detail on by Kossacks from Michigan on DKos, Michigan Dems for all practical purposes lost their right to vote to have their say in the nomination of the Democratic Presidential nominees because our state leaders thought it was time that our states economic problems be center stage in this election even if that means destroying the foundation that our nominating process has been built on. The DNC didn't like that thus they gave us the death penalty of voiding our primary resulting in all the candidates BUT Hillary, Gravel, Kucinich, and the greatest of all progressive, liberal DEMs who is the answer to all our problems and the true agent of change: "UNCOMMITTED".
UPDATE:
What could be interesting is that this could be an issue in the 9th congressional district between Gary Peters and Nancy Skinner. If this happens, they will have to pick sides. Will they pick the same side or different sides? That could instantly trump all other issues in that primary.
Well, it looks like our death sentence may have been commuted. It looks like there may be an effort underway to have a do-over for our primary.
http://www.freep.com/...
Now, I'm sure that Obama, whose shins are probably covered with bruises from his kicking himself for 2 months, will support this as he was absent from the last sham election, but Hillary BETTER support this too. Sure, she can be an cheap opportunist and try to claim victory and demand these delegates be seated, but that is really missing the point. The bottomline is that the actions of the DEMs, right or wrong, in voiding the Jan 15 primary has really angered and alienated the Democratic base in Michigan. If the DEMs are too beat McCain in Nov, they can't afford to lose Michigan. If John Kerry lost Michigan, nobody would've even paid attention to Ohio. Second, if John McCain has a definite vulnerability, it is on economic issues. If the DEMs want to make economic issues front and center, the best place to do that is in Michigan, the state with the toughest problems.
If Hillary and the DNC let this stand, it will give John McCain a huge issue and message to use to win Michigan. HE can claim to be the candidate who cares about creating jobs, after all he was willing to campaign here when DEMs weren't. That's pretty believable if you aren't a diehard DEM(I am a diehard DEM)