Why was there no protest over the GOP with FL and MI?

[Jake]

1. John McCain has the nomination wrapped up without needing Michigan and Florida. This is obvious.

2. All the candidates were on the ballot in Michigan.

3. All the candidates campaigned in Florida and Michigan

4. Other states jumping up were penalized.

So essentially, the RNC cut their delegations in half and it was business as usual. I'm glad our chairman wasn't effing stupid because we completely avoided the mess the Democrats are in (and still would've avoided it if the contest was still being contested).

And the disenfranchisement argument doesn't carry much weight. Delegate allocation is unproportional in both primaries anyway (Florida already had more delegates than New York despite having a lower population).

i know he is smarter than he acts.

This quote fits in this thread well.

[Jake]

If so, then why not just give Florida and Michigan, say, 10 delegates each, allocated based on the January primaries?  That way, the votes from both states would "count".  They just wouldn't count very much.

1. Defending the way Democrats allocated delegates to later states is pointless. I'm not here to pat Howard Dean on the back.

2. I'd say your plan solves the disenfranchisment claims, but it's obviously not going to solve the political issue at stake.