Last year, Michigan and Florida party leaders (Republicans and Democrats alike) got together and decided that their states didn’t have enough say in the selection of the presidential nominees so they decided to move their primaries up from wherever they were to January.
This ticked off the national party leaders on both sides. The Republicans told both states that they would lose half of their delegates in the summer convention and that was that.
The Democrats told both states that they would lose ALL of their delegates and told the candidates not to campaign in the states or have their names on the ballot. Hillary Clinton didn’t campaign in the state, but her name was left on the ballot (I forgot the reason why. Let’s me generous and say it was a paperwork error). Barack Obama didn’t campaign in the state and his name was NOT on the ballot. The voters were told NOT to write in the name of any candidate, doing so would invalidate their ballot. IF they didn’t want to vote for any of the candidates on the ballot, then they were to vote Uncommitted.
Fast forward a few months, and the Democrat presidential nomination process is as tight as it has ever been. Now, the Democratic Party leaders of Michigan (I’m not sure about Florida) want to get back into the process that they violated a few months ago. They have whined about the people of Michigan not getting a say in the process (when they are the ones who took that away from the Michigan voters) and are trying to come up with a "plan" to get the Michigan delegates recognized at the summer convention.
The plan included splitting the delegates in a way that upsets Hillary Clinton, who if you remember wasn’t supposed to be on the ballot in the first place (but who likes to include the Michigan and Florida delegates when she makes the case that she is in the lead).
I have a solution: Hillary Clinton gets 0 delegates, Barack Obama gets 0 delegates, the Michigan and Florida delegates stay at home, the Michigan and Florida Democratic Party leaders resign in shame, and future Party leaders in states that want to mess around with their primary schedule learn a lesson: No means no.