Letters to the Editor
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Now Hold on a Second
If the system were truly fair, then it requres a revote in Michigan and Florida. The Obama camp was willing to compromise on revotes.
Florida rejected such an idea and the national party refused to force the issue. So what this author is arguing for is to replace one unfair system which all the candidates agreed upon with another idea which unfairly benefits one candidate.
It is very dishonets to claim Obama is disenfranchising when it was the Democratic National Committee who made the decision and demanded the candidates go along with it. More importantly the Michigan and Florida did this to themselve and in Florida it was a REPUBLICAN legislative ploy which violated the rules.
If Clinton were advocating an evenhanded fix, she'd be in the right - but she's not, she wants delegates which were not chosen fairly.
I'll agree the entire primary system is broken and absurd and Michigan and Florida should have been allowed to participate.
But to claim Clinton would be winning if this was a popular vote is pure speculation AND another barely concealed attack on Obama as if he was cheating by winning votes legally.