Reply #12: Your mother in Michigan is misinformed

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It was the Michigan state democratic apparatus that didn't want her vote to count. After all 50 states had agreed to a primary schedule in meetings in 2007, the state parties in Michigan and Florida decided they wanted to jump the line, apparently so their primaries would carry more weight, and they'd get more attention.

When their tactics - which would make a five-year-old roll his eyes in disgust - backfired, they spent a great deal of time and energy trying to blame everyone except themselves for their fix. The state parties in Michigan and Florida have been shamelessly abetted by the Clinton campaign, and helped along by a national media that remains willfully ignorant of the facts.

Your mother didn't get to vote in the Democratic primary not because of anything done by the national party, but because of the childish machinations of her own state's Democrats. That's where her anger should properly be directed.