It's called myth making

Unfortunately, with Michigan's economic distress and past voting history being what they are, both Democrats should be leading comfortably there by 10 points.  The DNC has turned Michigan into a disaster this year.  

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...were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas.

I'll bet Hillary "wishes" she had campaigned in somne of those small insignificant states that gave Obama his delegate lead.

Can't re-wish the rules. Obama played it correctly - rules work in his favor.

You gotta admit - Obama's team hasn't missed many strategy calls...OK - New Hampshire, but not many since then.

Mad at Edwards for endorsing "senator respect empower" ?

I hear that a re-vote would not have been able to follow DNC rules in regards to preventing Republican primary voters from voting in the Democratic primary. Mainly because the list of Republican primary voters would not be available for some reason or another.

Ultimately the big mistake was on the part of the Michigan Democrats, who couldn't settle for February 5th and tried to cut in line.

I would have loved a re-vote. The first election was a sham. But a re-vote is a lot harder than it seems.  The most effective and cheap way to do a revote would have been a caucus. Michigan has a history of caucuses. But Florida does not, and Hillary wouldn't allow a caucus. Then you had the issue of the Voting Rights Act, which would require Bush Administration officials to sign off on the Florida election. That would have been too late - July at the earliest. And finally there was the money question. Nobody ever resolved how the elections would be funded. There were vague offers by Hillary supporters to fund it but that just sounded too Banana Republicish to take seriously.

The only way a re-vote would have been possible is if Hillary had agreed to it back in early February. But instead she insisted for a month that the original votes should count and lost valuable planning time. By April Obama had a legitimate right worry about hastily arranged vote-in ballots.

when State Party leaders asked party members for their input on a re-do.

Making Obama into the bad guy just won't fly.

There's a word for this argument - "lie."  Clinton presented a "re-vote" plan whose effect would've been to ensure that the same voters who didn't get a chance to vote for Obama the first time would be the only ones who could vote.  It would've been a rigged election.

Any re-vote was DOA - Clinton opposed a caucus, and a primary would've been litigated until next year.

The fault wasn't Obama's, or Clinton's, or Santa Claus's - the fault lies with the Michigan Democratic Party, who decided to play chicken with the DNC and instead got hit by the train.  And now Howard Dean and the rest of the national party is out there picking up all of the pieces while the Obama and Clinton camps yell at each other from across the tracks.

When Obama gets to 2,025 sometime in the next 2 weeks, it's going to be over.

the popular vote is totally meaningless in our current system.  

Reason 1:  Each state does it different.  Some allow independents, some allow republicans, some even let you just mail in your ballot.  Others do caucuses, others let you do same day registration, and some have early voting months in advance.  Also, some states do have the millions of dollars required to run a full blown primary.  So the idea that the popular vote is the "will of the people" is just no true.

Reason 2:  Delegates are used to force candidates to actually visit smaller states.  It is the same theory as the electoral college.  If we just used the popular vote, big states like California and New York would basically decide our nominee.  Now since we want the most well rounded and competitive candidate we space proportional delegate primaries out to see who ends up the strongest.

But if people really want to just use the popular vote we need to have a universal set of rules combined with a new funding plan that helps poorer states pay the bill.  

This is a game to the Clintons. They knew the rules of the game- Bill Clinton actually won playing those rules, i.e., he won the caucus states and gained the nomination. For some reason they did not follow that path and found themselves losing after Super Tuesday. They threw the kitchen sink, but the detritus did not stick. So then Hillary changed her persona. She abandoned the the policy wonk retoric because it could not compete with the message of Obama. Her new message of bitter, guns and pandering appealed to the lowest common denominator and it started to win her votes. Not enough votes, but she did start to win. But then the super delegates starting go to Obama. Then they changed the metric...count the popular vote. Count ALL the votes even though the DNC rules are delegate driven, but heck its a game. Now its on to the convention, coerce pledged delegates away from Obama, reinstate FL and MI and, bingo, you have a winner.

In the game it is all about winning and the Clintons want to win. They do not care if they are dividing the party. Her supports are convinced that Obama is a sexist because he dusted off his shoulders in one speech he made and that he he played the race card with Bill Clinton in NC. A house divided.

Hillary has huge debts and a fragile infrastructure in place within the states making her ability to compete in the general election problematic. It appears she would rather spend all her time, energy and expenses to try and pull off a pyric victory. Will she be equipped to compete after the convention in the general election?  

Her course of action right now is not logical, so the question is why? Why do they want to win at our expense? I have no answer, only pity.

I know, Bill and Hill have no campaign events for tomorrow.

He hasn't done the right thing?  Man you need to come back from the dark side.  I am an Obama supporter and even I don't think Clinton has been evil.  She just really wants to win.

The last person to reject a compromise offered by the state officials was Clinton.  So far as I know, the only reason this wasn't resolved earlier is because she insists on full seating of the delegates.

It's Clinton who has not and will not compromise. Once this is settled she's loses her last rallying cry and reason to keep stirring up trouble.

"We are open to comprise [sic]. We are willing to go more than half way. We're willing to work to make sure that we can achieve a compromise. And I guess the question is: is Senator Clinton's campaign willing to do the same?"

Axelrod continues: "Well, obviously, any compromise is going to involve some give, and that means if there's something on the table, we're willing to consider it. That may include us yielding more delegates than perhaps we would have, simply on the basis of the rules."