Michigan Should Have Stayed on February 9th

[pstans]

The Michigan Primary should be taking place today, February 9th. However, they decided to break DNC rules and move up their primary to make it more meaningful. The DNC stripped the state of the their delegates, rendering the earlier primary meaningless and now Michigan is complaining about not having delegates.

As I predicted back in November, if the Michigan primary was today, it would have been very important in the process. It is a large state with a lot of delegates and the candidates would have been campaigning there all week. Instead Obama has been campaigning in Nebraska and Maine. Michigan really dropped the ball on this one.

[ray of light]

1. Michigan dems--the people not the idiots running the MDP---are PISSED!

[pstans]

12. I'd be pissed too

[Tatiana]

2. Boy did Michigan ever drop the ball on this one. n/t

[AP]

3. Hopefully, lack of foresight won't be THE story of the 2008 Democratic nomination process.

[pstans]

4. I saw the writing on the wall in November before Michigan made their final decision

Too bad they didn't see it and that they still decided to break the DNC's rules.

[Sherman A1]

5. Agreed

[Yael]

6. Today was to be the date?

WOW -- the party must be kicking themselves.

[Thrill]

7. Yup they needed huge attention on their economy

and they blew it

[Faygo Kid]

8. It's very depressing. Native Michigander now out east, but hoping to go back.

I love my home state, and hope to retire there. This is so depressing. Michigan's primary would have been HUGE today, and maybe the critical one in this race. As it is, we are reduced to watching Hillary try to lay claim to delegates she has no right get, just because she didn't take her name off the ballot as Obama and Edwards did.

Michigan Dem leaders all should be run out of the state on rails.

[DeadManInc]

9. The primary should be the same day

for every state.

[TexasObserver]

10. The DNC should strip Michigan of all its superdelegates who had a role

.... in this debacle of their convention credentials, and give half the remaining delegates to Obama and half to Hillary. Tell both candidates and Michigan that is the deal, or they can forget participating at all.

[pstans]

11. Fair compromise