If Clinton wins Michigan

[Bread and Circus]

does she get the delegates?

[skipos]

1. As of now, no delegates for anyone. I voted UNCOMMITTED. nt

[SlowDownFast]

3. Me 2. n/t

[Breeze54]

5. Another waste.

:(

[Breeze54]

4. What a waste of time...and you could have had a choice.

:(

[tokenlib]

2. The media will say she won...

..and even without delegates that's of value. A win is a win unfortunately.

[D23MIURG23]

6. against Kucinich and "uncommited"?

If they manage to report it as a win without mentioning her near total lack of opposition, then the media is worse off than I thought.

[maddogesq]

7. And there's more.

CNN) — Hillary Clinton faced a grim statistic in Michigan tonight, despite her primary "win" there: results revealed that she may have reason to worry about her grasp on the African-American vote.

The Michigan primary vote was essentially meaningless: the national party stripped the state of its delegates because it held its contest too early in the election season, and Clinton was the only major Democratic contender whose name appeared on the ballot.

Even so, roughly 70 percent of Michigan’s African-American voters — a group that makes up a quarter of Michigan’s Democratic electorate — did not cast their votes for Clinton, choosing the “uncommitted” option instead. Yet these voters weren’t uncommitted at all: in fact, according to CNN exit polls, they overwhelmingly favored Barack Obama, whose name did not appear on the ballot.

Had Obama’s name been on the Michigan ballot, CNN exit polls show that he would have won an overwhelming 73 percent of the African-American vote, in contrast to 22 percent who say they would have voted for Clinton under those circumstances. If South Carolina’s large African-American community votes as Michigan’s, Hillary may not be feeling much ‘southern hospitality’ in that state.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

Tell the Hillmeister to explain this one.

[noonwitch]

9. If she gets the nomination, they will vote for her in the general election

Black people have waited a long time to vote for a black candidate. the primaries are for voters to choose who they really want, not their pragmatic choice in the general elections.

I think we are lucky to have such good candidates, in both cases. I voted for Hillary in the primary (not like I had much choice, but I would have voted for her anyways), but if Obama gets the nomination, I will vote for him in November.

[D23MIURG23]

8. BTW "Uncommitted" got almost 40% of the vote

http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/states/MI.html

Hillary: 55.5%
Uncommited: 39.7%
Kucinich: 3.8%
Dodd: 0.7%
Gravel: 0.4%

94% Reporting.

Personally, I would be less than thrilled if I were her; she is within 20 points of an unnamed "Not-Hillary" candidate among DEMOCRATS in a generally blue state.