I appreciate your reasonable position. However...

I wasn't making a claim one way or the other about whether the Michigan vote should be counted. My post pertained to the accuracy of Hillary's comment about getting the most votes of those people who have voted.

However, when Obama, Edwards and Biden voluntarily removed their names from the ballot, their supporters (at their urging -- especially Obama's) were told to vote UNCOMMITTED. So, even though there was no "campaigning" by the candidates in the state, there was a lot of URGING to vote uncommited. But, even with that urgent urging, they lost.

594,398 Democrats voted in the Michigan primary.

328,309 voted for Hillary Clinton

238,168 voted Uncommitted (Obama, Biden, Edwards voters gave them only 40% of the vote?!)

21,715 voted for Dennis Kucinich

3,845 voted for Chris Dodd

2,361 voted for Mike Gravel

What I do think is ridiculous is Obama's magnanimous offer (snark) that the delegates be split 50-50 in Michigan.

Nor for any of us.

is so tiresome!

Blame, blame, blame....no taking responsibility for the fact that Obama stopped gaining traction weeks ago, so it's gotta be someone else's fault.

And, what's this "publicly neutral" BS? Clyburn is so obviously engaged on Obama's behalf, that it's an insult for him to feign neutrality.

Barack Obama will not get traction from this ploy.

Hillary Clinton has hammered Obama for voting for an energy bill backed by the Bush White House. Hillary opposed the Bush-backed energy bill.

Clinton also slammed Obama for taking money from oil executives, even as Obama runs ads saying he doesn't take oil company donations, which he does but not directly from the corporations.

The gas-tax dispute injects a "it's the economy stupid" dollars-and-cents issue into the campaign. It may not amount to much in dollars and cents, but it resonates with working class voters who are struggling to keep their noses above water. Obama doesn't get this.

Also, while I'm not for the gas tax "holiday" because it doesn't address oil independence and changing out habits, Clinton's proposal, and policies, are different than McCain's.

HILLARY CLINTON

-- Supports a summer gas-tax holiday, paid for by oil companies' windfall profits.

-- Suppports suspending the purchase of oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

- Backs investing in clean energy sources and raising fuel efficiency standards.

JOHN MCCAIN

-- Proposed legislation to eliminate the federal 18.4-cents-a-gallon gas tax between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Under his plan, $10 billion would be transferred from the General Fund to pay for it.

-- Supports suspending the purchase of oil for Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

According to CNN's report, Air Force veteran Clif Sams told McCain that he had done a “damn good job” surviving his imprisonment during the Vietnam War. He then told the senator: “I hope that we have somebody called Swift Boats for McCain come out and help you. You’re damn good.”

“Thank you sir, and thank you for your service,” McCain responded.

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Looks to me like McCain (no friend of mine) just wanted to get on with it. His thank you -- one for Sams' compliment and the other for his military service -- was a polite brush-off.

Big deal.

who won most of the Chamorro vote?

That must be the key to electability in November, don't ya know.

The media have driven the narrative for this campaign season -- they made Obama sound like the second coming. They've teased and teased us. By the time we get there, there

won 't be much of anything, leading to our anticipointment.

When will we ever learn?

...she might step aside. If all those friends that the Clintons made in Texas back in 1972 when they all worked on the McGovern campaign together -- Barrientos, Flores, Roy Spence, Garry Mauro, Truano (sp?), etc. -- decide to side with McGovern, then Hillary might step aside.

But until then....let the voters have their say.

McGovern would be a wiser elder statesman if he was advocating for a Michigan/Florida solution.