Florida and Michigan are not doing a revote. This means that the only results in those two states are the invalid elections that all candidates acknowledged in advance would not send delegates to the national convention. Since voters were told that the election would not count, and since neither of the candidates campaigned in the states (and in Michigan, Obama was not even on the ballot) it would be unfair for the results in these states to be a factor in the election. Yet, these two states are crucial in the general election and it would be a problem, not just for the presidential candidate but for the party as a whole for 2 large states to be ignored.
It is clear that addressing this problem is a matter that party leaders will need to solve. And while solutions like splitting the delegates between the two candidates sound fair, it really doesn't seem democratic to have a process where the delegates count, but the decision of voters who confer legitimacy on the delegates is ignored in favor of an arbitrary formula.
What is clearly needed is for the superdelegates -- the party leaders whose purpose is to protect the party -- to step in after the final primary, and decide the nominee. I would assume that superdelegates would tend to support the winner of the popular vote or delegate count(excluding the flawed Michigan and Florida primaries). Superdelegates could even begin now, by stating that their vote will be decided by the national election popular vote or delegate count in order to help speed the selection and bring the party together.
Getting the candidate in place as early as possible will help heal the party, eliminate the concern with Michigan and Florida (since the flawed elections would not be decisive any more) and will help the down-ticket candidates who would benefit by being able to identify with the party's presidential candidate. And nobody would benefit from that more than the superdelegates themselves, many of whom are these same down-ticket candidates.
A process that has to wait for the convention to conclude will inevitably result in an extraordinarily divisive, nasty campaign that will continue to direct its fire against our own candidates, one of whom will be the nominee, rather than taking the fight to McCain. 2-1/2 more months is as long as we should wait to finish this part of the process off. It's time for the superdelegates to save the party, and to agree to seat the Michigan and Florida delegations as soon as the party nominee is locked in.