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Article: Michigan Democrats nix do-over primary
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- April 5, 2008
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Michigan Democrats are not going to hold a
do-over presidential primary.
The state party's executive committee made it official Friday,
saying "it is not practical" to conduct a party-run primary or
caucus as a way to get the state's delegates seated at the
Democratic National Convention this August in Denver.
Michigan and Florida were stripped of their convention delegates
for moving up their primaries before Feb. 5 in defiance of party
rules. Florida Democrats already had decided against holding a
second primary election.
Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won the Jan. 15
Michigan primary. Rival Sen. Barack Obama pulled his name from the
ballot. Many of ...