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panader0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 05:57 PM Original message |
Ok, a dumb question: Why are Dems boycotting Michigan? |
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fenriswolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
1. yeah michigan tried to be a big dog and move its primary |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 08:23 PM Response to Reply #1 |
23. It's a touch more complicated, but that's about it. |
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Hawaii Hiker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-15-08 12:19 AM Response to Reply #23 |
29. I hope you're wrong about that |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-15-08 11:28 AM Response to Reply #29 |
33. If they lose Detroit, they lose the state. |
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LordJFT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-15-08 12:28 AM Response to Reply #23 |
30. its not that the dems don't give a shit about michigan |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-15-08 11:23 AM Response to Reply #30 |
32. Do you live here? How do you know? |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 05:59 PM Response to Original message |
2. I think (empahsize think) that it has to do with |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
3. Right. The rules said they could only run as early as Feb 5th. |
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rocktivity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
4. I'll see your dumb question and raise you a dumber one, LOL |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 06:09 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Because that would totally remove the 'retail politics' aspect of running in a small state. |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-15-08 11:35 AM Response to Reply #8 |
40. It would have to be done in conjunction with.. |
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MrMickeysMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 06:12 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. That is actually the smartest question I've read here all afternoon. |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 06:33 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. Because candidates would have to come up with hundreds of millions to do it. |
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Bill McBlueState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-15-08 11:35 AM Response to Reply #12 |
41. so this is a fundamental problem with the system |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
5. Two 'Battlegrounds' States, Florida and Michigan, thrown over to the right. |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 08:24 PM Response to Reply #5 |
24. Amen to that. |
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fenriswolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
6. also someone around here has a sig line and has posted |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 08:18 PM Response to Reply #6 |
22. She. Our governor is Jennifer Granholm, whom I used to like. |
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fenriswolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 11:53 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. oh very nice lady |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-15-08 11:29 AM Response to Reply #26 |
35. She's got great charisma, but she hasn't led the way we need her to. |
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AnOhioan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 06:07 PM Response to Original message |
7. Cause the DNC is bullying the states to behave |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 06:15 PM Response to Original message |
10. The RNC stripped Michigan of half of it's delegates. The DNC took them all. |
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rocktivity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 06:34 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Randi Rhodes says that Michiganers should vote either Kucinich or uncommited |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 06:54 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. That's Right! Election Workers CANNOT Say A Word About It, Either |
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rocktivity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 07:26 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Can people stand a legal distance from each polling place and hand out flyers? |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 07:32 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. The Flyers Could Not Enter the Polls, or Come Within 100Feet of the Doors |
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HeraldSquare212 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
11. The DNC wanted to give blacks (SC) and hispanics (NV) |
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fenriswolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 06:54 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. or it could be a DNC ploy |
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spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 06:57 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. I guess screw the "blacks and hispanics" in MI, eh? |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 08:25 PM Response to Reply #16 |
25. Yeah, it's not like we have any minorities here. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 07:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. Ever visited Detroit? |
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Labors of Hercules (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
17. I don't know shit about the internal politics of the DNC, but... |
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fenriswolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-14-08 07:43 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. all it would take would be |
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AZBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-15-08 12:15 AM Response to Original message |
27. And now Michigan will be a red state. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-15-08 12:34 AM Response to Reply #27 |
31. You don't understand. |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-15-08 11:30 AM Response to Reply #31 |
36. That's exactly what will happen. |
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tandem5 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-15-08 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
28. The thing I want to know is why would Obama, Edwards, etc. pull their names? |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-15-08 11:33 AM Response to Reply #28 |
39. Iowa and NH threatened to not vote for anyone who campaigned here. |
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tandem5 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-15-08 03:21 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. Wait that can't be... |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-15-08 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
34. Its punishment for producing eminem. |
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Strawman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-15-08 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
37. To kiss Iowan ass |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-15-08 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
38. Sheer, short sighted stupidity, and politics as usual, come to mind. |
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