Reply #82: I agree with you that the DNC should have moved Michigan up.

[TexasObserver]

And it was dumb of them to bust out Michigan like that. Dumb to bust out Florida, too. These things should have been worked out. That said, it's incumbent on the STATE party officials to make a compromise happen. They have no bargaining power with the other 48 states reps running the show.

The DNC should have barred all the (Florida and Michigan) state party wonks from participating in the DNC, and forced those states to send new party leaders to represent the states in this matter. They should have punished the recalcitrant leaders instead of their constituents. But they didn't, and now it's a mess.

I'd like to see this fixed. We need Michigan and Florida more than we need Iowa and New Hampshire, but even so, this year the delegates cannot come in, and that's how it must be.