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"It won&amp;amp;#8217;t matter when Hillary wins the Michigan primary today. She&amp;amp;#8217;s the only Democrat on the ballot. Michigan Democrats can vote for her, &amp;amp;#8220;uncommitted&amp;amp;#8221; or Republican. They can also vote for Dennis Kucinich or Mike Gravel, but what&amp;amp;#8217;s the point. Their names aren&amp;amp;#8217;t even polled anymore. And you thought Democrats were pro-choice. You see, the Democratic and Republican National Committees didn&amp;amp;#8217;t want Michigan to move up its primary and upset the delicate Iowa-New Hampshire-South Carolina-Nevada primary campaign flow. As punishment the DNC eliminated all of Michigan&amp;amp;#8217;s Democratic delegates and the RNC cut the Republican ones by half. As a result, Barack Obama and John Edwards knuckled under to the DNC and completely passed on Michigan. Hillary kept her name on the ballot, but has barely made an effort to campaign through the Great Lake state. It was embarrassing for me to read a pathetic editorial by my hometown paper, The Flint Journal, practically begging her to make a &amp;amp;#8220;token visit&amp;amp;#8221; sometime. I find it a little ironic in the annoyed, sighing, roll my eyes kind of way these three have been busy releasing their &amp;amp;#8220;economic stimulus&amp;amp;#8221; packages to national media, but can&amp;amp;#8217;t make time to talk to Michiganders about their &amp;amp;#8220;one-state recession&amp;amp;#8221; or why the state has the highest unemployment rate in the nation. The Republican candidates, on the other hand, are flouting RNC rules to make Michigan, a battleground state in 2004, competitive. Of course, there are 30 delegates up for grabs for them. But, considering Republicans have to win 1,191 delegates in order to be nominated, that number seems corresponds better with the Michigan&amp;amp;#8217;s nose-dive economy than any long term electoral value. Regardless of delegate counts, I&amp;amp;#8217;m pleased Republicans want to help my beleaguered home state more than the state can help them. I can&amp;amp;#8217;t say as much for the Dems. &amp;amp;#8212;Amanda"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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