Reply #49: My mistake - I thought they were the other way around.

[RaleighNCDUer]

But it doesn't change the very real fact that a great many potential voters didn't bother to show up because they KNEW they votes would be meaningless.

This isn't little league baseball where you can win by default. Particularly if the other team is told that it's just an exhibition game and won't count toward the playoffs.

The fact that she got 55% of the vote THAT SHOWED UP means nothing.

Also, Hillary's standing in the polls means nothing, as is evidenced by the fact that she has held a commanding lead in every contest a month out, but as they started campaigning that lead had always dropped dramatically. As campaigning in MI and FL was all but nonexistant, the straw polls they conducted did not reflect the effects of campaigning.

The only fair way to seat delegates from those states is for them both to have a re-vote, closed primary, with all (both) remaining candidates campaigning their little hearts out. DNC and the states should split the costs down the middle.