Florida-Michigan-It's Official-You're Only Half As Important As The Other States

A little bit of additional information is needed here I think. The Democrats who are being punished were forced into this position by the Republicans who outvoted them on setting the date for the election. The Republicans knew that the DNC would do and they thought it was funny, couldn't care less. The DNC should not have punished Florida's Democrats for that very reason but apparently they're blind as well as deaf.

Hmmm... "page not found". Oh well, it's the thought that counts. You know, the democrats have been whining for the last 7 years about how the "will of the people" and "counting every vote" has been ignored and not done through two separate elections that they somehow lost. Oh, that's right.... they wuz robbed! Yet here we are, with the democrats doing the very thing that they have been claiming the republicans did... and they are doing it to their own people! I'm thinking hypocrisy, stupidity, and shooting themselves in the foot. Yep, it will bite them, and I hopes it rips out several large chunks when it does. Proud member of the vast right wing conspiracy....

People in Florida and Michigan only half a person, now that sounds totally democratic. Imagin if the Republican party had done this, what people would be saying. How can I meet some ofe these halflings? Are they all legs, are they all upper body, or is there a mix?

Part of the problem is the Primary System is that two states have more say in who gets elected than other states. Iowa and New Hampshire decide who will be allowed to compete for the nomination. If you don't have a good showing in those two states you don't move on. This years was the first time in many years that we had a wide open contest on both sides. Several states moved their primary and were not punished. Florida and Michigan were big states and the Party wanted draw out the process. Wisconsin has its primary in April and we have not had a say in the nomination process for a long time. By the time they get to us the field is down to one or two in each party. By telling states when they can have their primary isn't the Party determining which voters are more important and should have more of a say in the electoral process. Do you schedule the primary to favor one political view over another?

If I lived there I would really feel that I had been disrespected as a citizen of the United States. What good is is to have the right to vote if your vote is not counted because someone changed the rules.

When I heard that was how they dealt with it. I was shocked. I shouldn't be....this is the land where anything goes now. Punish these people because their state can't get it right...how fair is that?

It's just f*cking sad. I'm not even a democrat and I'm more offended than most democrats at what's happened in this election. I'm glad I'm a republican and my vote was counted, but I can't help but be vocal about the fact that millions of people in the state I live in were disenfranchised by some ignorant puds at the DNC who have no idea what it's like to be an honest, hard working American. There's no guarantee that they will seat any of the delegates. They are just saying that the MOST they'll do is seat half the delegates. The entire party is a farce and the worst part is how many ignorant democrats in my hometown rushed to see Obama when he came off his cloud to visit Tampa, FL. All that for the man who still opposes counting the Florida delegates just because he didn't win the state. I'm sure if he won he'd be saying the votes should count and it would be Hillary opposing it.

They have been talking about that all day on CNN situation room and might still be talking about it right now. If you are near your tv check out CNN they have been talking about that. I know when Nov. come it will be something.

They have been talking about that all day on CNN situation room and might still be talking about it right now. If you are near your tv check out CNN they have been talking about that. I know when Nov. come it will be something.