The reason they moved their primaries up was to get the attention, the voice in the process and the campaign and media spending dollars that they felt they deserved. Instead, in the most compelling Democratic race in decades, they got to watch it unfold and got no attention from the candidates, had no voice and got no media or campaign spending. Of course Florida did have a big say in selecting the GOP nominee, but Michigan didn’t even get that, as only two Republicans really campaigned there and it ended up producing Mitt Romney’s biggest primary win (which wasn’t all that big, really.)

One can only wonder what was going through the minds of some leaders in Michigan and Florida as they watched six weeks of exclusive coverage and tens of millions of dollars being lavished on Pennsylvania and its ‘one-for-the-whole-month-of-April’ primary.

That said, the rules were clear, and Obama has a case that since the voters were told their votes wouldn’t count a lot of independents and possibly potential crossover Republicans (both groups that favor Obama) voted a Republican ballot because it was the only game in town.

I’d be in favor of any solution for seating the delegations that doesn’t overturn the results as determined by following the rules (i.e. any solution that doesn’t change the overall result from what it would be as of June 3 if the two states are not counted.)

Otherwise it would be like a football team that is down by ten points but has time for one last Hail Mary calling a timeout to ask the referees to change the rules so that a last second touchdown will now be worth eleven points.