The 2008 presidential field at-a-glance

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Originally Posted by skylark

I stand corrected on that point. There were murmorings for a while that she had done some under-the-radar campaigning in Florida. She also had a "victory" speach there, which I thought was a tacky attempt to control the news cycle on something completely pointless.

In response to AGDee, though, it isn't disenfranchisement if you don't vote according to the rules of the election. If you're a resident of County X, you can't expect to show up in County Z, where you work, and vote there because you feel you should have the right to. If you're a felon, then you vote, your vote isn't going to be counted either because you're ineligible. The bottom line is if you don't follow the rules, you can't expect your vote to count. If you have a problem with the rules, you need to raise your issues and come to a resolution (that everyone sticks to) from the beginning. If Floridians and Michigans didn't like the fact that their delegates weren't going to count, they should have fixed the problem before they held their early primaries.

It's also not disenfranchisement since primaries are internal party matters. There's no constitutional right to vote in a primary.