Tom Athans
Posted at 8:23am on Jun. 2, 2008 Michigan only gets 50% of a vote but we may still get 100% of the shaft!
By RightMichigan.com
Big weekend in Michigan Presidential politics followed by a big week in Michigan politics period. Of course the story on everyone's mind Saturday and Sunday was the DNC's decision to seat Michigan's convention delegates after stripping them of half their voting power. It was a move that had Obama's folks pleased as punch and Hillary Clinton's supporters seeing red. Seriously. Talk about being treated like second class citizens.
Although hey, on the bright side, at least there's only one of us named Kwame Kilpatrick because the motor city's mayor, a super delegate and Barack supporter is still being completely ignored by the Obama camp, a decision becoming more and more obvious with every visit the candidate makes to Michigan. Which is two, by the way. Two visits in the last year if you count the Oakland County stop he's got planned this week. Two. But I digress. The Lansing State Journal reports:
Kilpatrick's get-out-the-vote operation in Detroit could be key in a hotly competitive state that doesn't know Obama that well, thanks to an agreement by the Democratic candidates not to campaign for the primary.
Obama could use the mayor's enthusiastic support in Detroit, a city of 900,000 where blacks make up more than 80 percent of the city's residents and nearly always vote Democratic.
Read on . . .
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