This will give Romney a tiny bounce, maybe undetectable, but might encourage him to stay in all the way and try to play some kind of a "kingmaker" role at the RNC convention.

He's invested millions, and probably doesn't want to go to the convention empty-handed.

Who does this help?  Maybe nobody in the GOP field.  It might increase the likelihood of a brokered convention, though.

If Hillary gets close to 60%, or more, she will get a bounce, a tiny bounce, but a bounce nonetheless, and she will have a bunch of delegates at the convention to lobby for her, even if they are not formally "seated."

Apparently Not Clinton is winning among African Americans in Michigan:

According to the Fox exit polls, in the Democratic primary tonight, Clinton took 25% of the African-American vote and "uncommitted" is getting 69% of the African-American vote. Now remember, Hillary is only major candidate on the ballot.

Chris Bowers says:

If he can trounce Clinton among African-Americans without even being on the ballot, it seems that Obama has solidified African-Americans behind him nationwide. If, as Matt suggested yesterday, he can secure the white liberal vote, that would be a winning coalition in the Democratic primary nationwide. It would also be a repetition of his coalition in the Illinois Senate primary four years ago.

Let's go Uncommitted (on the Republican side)! Beat Guiliani for 6th place!

Fox News? Obama has gotten 30-40 and Edwards around 15-20% in the first two states and they make a big deal about a 30-35% uncommitted vote?

...Just looking at the vote count on CNN;

Hillary - 26,024

Mitt Romney - 26,192

Paul would seem to have earned the right to remain in the GOP debates as long as Giuliani is invited to do so.

Wow.  Clinton rocked!

Olbermann calls it for Romney.

Atta boy, Kos!

NBC calls it for Romney! YEEEAH

Romney wins, Clinton picks up a ton of delegates.

Good news for the Democratic party. Still crossing my fingers that Romney will be the nominee.

Looks like as many Democrats came out to this as did for the GOP.  That is quite amazing.  I think Democrats are stoked.  The results so far also appear to be a thumbing of their noses at Edwards and Obama for pulling out of Michigan in a display of political calcule that is an insult to the voters of Michigan.  Rarely have I seen a display of such cowardice from major candidates (given that the "principle" explanation does not wash, as Obama and Edwards decided to remain on the Florida ballot.)   I would not be surprised  if this apparent Clinton validation in Michigan ends up giving her a bounce and makes the difference in Nevada for a win.    

Democrats voted for McCain, not Romney, so don't pat yourselves on the back. Republicans elected Romney.

Okay folks... please remember:

As long as Obama's middle name keeps being brought up, it's "Willard," not "Mitt."

Romney's now got 2 golds and 2 silvers. I don't see how he fades away now.

Where did this come from? There were no expectations in MI. Seeing as how no one nationally is even paying attention to MI on the Democratic side, this is just more BS from Armstrong. Pathetic.

Clinton lost the youth vote, both 18 - 24 and 25 - 29 year olds, to "uncommitted."

I'm sorry but if 50% is the weak ass expectation of the Clinton campaign in this primary, yeah she beats those expectations.  But jesus christ she is the only one on the ballot besides Kucinich, Dodd and Uncommitted.  A top tier candidate should be getting at least two thirds of the vote with no one else running.  I'm amazed that over 40% of the Democratic primary voters said No to  Hillary.

That is the real story here. Over a third of Democratic voters braved bad weather and went into the booth to vote for "uncommitted" instead of Clinton.  That is remarkable. 3 out of 4 AAs who did so said they would have voted for Obama. Could "uncommitted" get to 40%?  

Uncommitted is an expression of the actual hard support of Obama and Edwards (and richardson, dodd, Biden etc). If HRC can get a Majority over all the rest, i'd say that is an accomplishment, also considering there wasnt a large GOTV effort in Michigan.

My two cents:

The takeaway, if there is any (and I think there isn't) is what TPM pointed to:  the exit poll #s among AAs.  They went to the poll by a large margin to vote for literally no one rather than a Democratic front runner.

We can talk about it being a concerted effort by Edwards or Obama surrogates, but I'm sorry -- I don't see how 38% of the Dem. Party were led to the polls to vote "uncommitted" by the Edwards and Obama forces when neither had field personnel or $ devoted to the task of getting them to vote for no one.

It is about defining narrative at this point.  The HRC campaign can tout a victory over no one in particular, because that's all they can do.  Everyone else will point to this:  1)  to the extent delegates will come out of this farce, it will do so after the nomination process has been decided, and 2)  the exit polling.

58-37% in a low-turnout election in which few resources or attention were expended by anyone is not a victory or defeat or anything.  

Some I have heard on this forum appear to be put more effort in emphasizing this and FL in which no delegates are at stake and de-emphasizing NV and SC in which media focus and delegates are definitely at stake.  Because of the proportional representation system and the fact that the papers will print delegate counts of primary/caucuses sanctioned by the D party, I'd rather have delegates right now, thanks.

NYT says "to be decided" with no number even footnoted.

(Jerome disagrees, I know.)

Uncommitted will get 41% of the vote; Clinton 54%.

In order for the Clinton campaign, Jerome, or the MyDD delegate tracker to count the Michigan delegates, the numbers have to be available. Can anyone find any media source that has delegate results out of tonights primary?