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The Republicans stripped Michigan and Florida of half their delegates. New Hampshire has historically gone early.
If the same dynamics existed with a half-vote penalty, the Clinton campaign would now be arguing for a full vote by the very same reasoning. This is not to dismiss the various arguments for and against the voters of those two states being allowed to participate in their party's primary process, just that very soon after Iowa the Clinton campaign realized it had a fight on its hands and began jettisoning any stated principles in favor of whatever gained their candidate more delegates.
