{"id":196862,"date":"2008-03-19T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/19\/ok-legitimate-issue-on-the-mi-revote-not-stonewalling\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T05:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T10:02:00","slug":"ok-legitimate-issue-on-the-mi-revote-not-stonewalling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/19\/ok-legitimate-issue-on-the-mi-revote-not-stonewalling\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, Legitimate Issue on the MI Revote, NOT Stonewalling"},"content":{"rendered":"

In discussing a possible revote, I noted that I thought that objections being raised by the Obama campaign were a specious attempt to stone wall.<\/p>\n

I’ve finally come across some of the specific issues that they have with a revote<\/a>, and they are in fact quite valid.<\/p>\n

One question is who do you allow to vote. Unlike a lot of other states, Michigan has an open primary, which means that you can choose which ballot you want when you walk into the polling area, regardless of party affiliation.<\/p>\n

To quote Chairman Kaga, “As Memory Serves”, there were a lot of Democrats who chose to vote for Mittmentum, because they thought that he would be particularly weak in the general.<\/p>\n

So, there is now an issue regarding what to do with the people who voted on the Republican ticket.<\/p>\n

This is a completely legitimate issue.<\/p>\n

My preferred solution would be to simply allow only people who were registered Democrats as of the date of the first election to participate in any revote<\/span>, regardless of which ballot they took in January. I think that open primaries create too much mischief, particularly in this instance.<\/p>\n

In any case, this issue has a number of possible solutions, and it cuts to the very core of any possible revote, so it is<\/span> a very valid concern, and needs to be addressed to the satisfaction of both campaigns.<\/p>\n

Me bad on calling it stonewalling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In discussing a possible revote, I noted that I thought that objections being raised by the Obama campaign were a specious attempt to stone wall. I’ve finally come across some of the specific issues that they have with a revote, and they are in fact quite valid. One question is who do you allow to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1047,1000,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corrections","category-elections","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}