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Originally Posted by Iggy's Forehead
Why do Michigan and Florida not count, anyways? And from what I've heard, even if they did it still wouldn't make a difference.
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Michigan and Florida moved up the date of their primaries (against party rules) because they thought they would be more influential if they voted earlier. Because they violated the rules, the DNC decided that their results wouldn't count (the Republicans, by comparison, punished those states by eliminating half of their delegates from the convention). Every candidate, Clinton included, agreed to abide by the party's ruling and not campaign in those states. Obama and Edwards didn't even have their names on the ballots, so the votes are a total sham. If Hillary wants those states to count, she's no better than a tin-pot dictator who has a "democratic election" with only one candidate.
Ironically, if Michigan and Florida had kept their normal primary dates, those states would have been extremely important in the Democratic race.