Like Reilly says they did it to keep out the chaos of a bunch of states moving their primaries, and Hillary was so far ahead they figured it wouldn't make a difference.
And like I have said, HOW could they possibly think it wouldn't make a difference in the General elect for the presidency, or not make a difference in the democratic race...........even with Hillary the front leader? These were two critical states to her being the front runner, TAKING THEM OUT took away that from her, immediately, off the bat....
The Dem rules always said the delegate punishment for these states was cutting them in half, WHY DID THE DNC CHANGE THIS AT THE LAST MINUTE, and make them ALL delegates only now to reverse that decision and give them half now?
If they had followed what we know now are in the rules and were the rules in the dnc handbook on the 2008 primary, cut them by 1/2, just like the rules say and the Republicans did and given those totals to hillary from the beginning, then hillary would not have been in such a horse race looking lke the trailer with Obama and would have been able to garner more campaign support...they DICKED her, BIGTIME....
They also screwed the florida and michigan citizen and they have been scorned by the DNC and their shenannigans with this mess...........
Florida WILL GO SINGLE HANDEDLY TO THE REPUBLICANS because of what these guys did....
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