The discussion about Michigan and Florida, for the obvious reasons like Calvinball and hypocrisy, is a waste of time. We all knew that the votes weren't going to count. Further with talk about "disenfranchising" the people that went to the polls there should also be talk of "disenfranchising" people that didn't go because they were told that the vote wouldn't count.
Then there's the reason, at least in Michigan's case, that we all seem to have forgotten about.
Read on....
On March 26th a federal court ruled that the Michigan primary was unconstitutional.
"In news that is unlikely to have a profound affect on the presidential race, a federal judge ruled today that Michigan's law that placed the primary on January 15th was unconstitutional. The issue at hand was this 2007 law's stipulation that the Election Day's voting lists containing the party preferences of voters (i.e. whether they chose a Democratic or a Republican ballot) would be sent to the state's Democratic and Republican parties. Smaller parties, helped by the ACLU, protested that this was a violation of their rights, and that if they were not going to be given the records as well the Democratic and Republican parties should not get them either."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
So what's the deal? All media outlets and the blogosphere seems the have forgotten this small detail that would effectively kill Hillary's argument about popular vote if the nullified contests were admitted.
She'd lose the approximately 328,000 to 0 vote advantage and the 73 to 0 delegate advantage from the Michigan non-contest. So even with all of Florida's delegates counting she'd still be down in the popular vote by approximately 160,000 votes and in the delegate count 2028 to 1883.
This issue needs to be reestablished and Michigan's vote needs to be described as what it is. Unconstitutional, nonexistent and therefore lacking in delegates for the convention.
Decided I should do a search before posting this and now I see that someone else had the same thought.
http://www.dailykos.com/...