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Some discussion about this would seem to be appropriate for this article, should it be created; see the text and references I've already posted at Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008#February 5 controversy. Wdfarmer ( talk) 11:57, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Why won't write-ins for Joe Biden, John Edwards, Barack Obama and Bill Richardson be counted? 75.22.235.76 ( talk) 01:28, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
So I noticed an article a few days ago that said that said "If 15 percent of the vote in a congressional district is uncommitted, its delegates will be free to represent any candidate" [1], meaning that even if the Democratic National Party counted Michigan's delegates, they could go wherever they wanted anyways. Did uncommitted get 15% in every district? -- Aknorals ( talk) 02:21, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Removed the following as an incomplete sentence. Also, the ref is for Florida, not Michigan. The idea is useful, but...
Feel free to re-include correctly with a more appropriate ref. -- Siradia ( talk) 01:22, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
There is no revote in MI and Wikipedia has no info on this!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.210.90.159 ( talk) 13:04, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
The article cites Hillary Clinton as being "dishonest" about wanting to count the Michigan primary. However, no one ever points out that despite Obama wants the superdelegates to follow the "will of the voters", he voluntarilly took his name off the Michigan ballot and is adamant against counting those delegates. If he supports the "will of the voters", why not the voters in Michigan?
Wikipedia is just a place for obama supporters to write their unbiased crap and to write an article for the guy everytime he farts. Don't expect any unbiased reporting here. They even manage to make the article on the Democratic National Convention 2008 a Hillary hit-job. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.12.122.59 ( talk) 00:06, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
At the end of the introductory paragraph, the article states that the MI Supreme Court ruled that the election should go forward as scheduled. This is followed by the following statement:
As it stands right now, the sentence seems to imply that this is part of the court's ruling ("delegates will be awarded"), which I believe is not the case. The support for this statement is an AP article that does not mention the MI court's decision. Also, the article does not refer to MI specifically. According to the article, this is the DNC's rule for all primaries.
Note, I am fudging here a bit because I'm not sure how the vote is divided. Are the votes for candidates who receive less than 15% reallocated to the remaining candidates? It's likely, but this is not the best place for that discussion/explanation. It'd be better placed in a more general section about the DNC primaries. Ileanadu ( talk) 17:27, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Would it be valuable to include the date on which the primary would have been held had it not been moved? This is not only interesting information to include, but is also valuable in that the primary has proved so contentious that Michigan may have had great influence had the date been kept later than it does by having it earlier. Johnduns ( talk) 17:02, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
The table here implies that had the actual vote counted then Hillary Clinton would have taken all 73 delegates - isn't "Uncommitted" an official option that "won" delegates as well? Timrollpickering ( talk) 17:30, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
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