What was the deal with Michigan being third in 2008?
Every state wants to have a gigantic say. Florida wasn't supposed to be early either but with such tiny sanctions for big influence (with some sanctions removed by convention time), they felt it was fine to move up. RNC stripped half the delegates and DNC stripped all though Clinton continued to contest them despite providing no help to her. They didn't help her enough to surpass Obama though when delegates there were reinstated. (That's all from memory so if I switched up the punishments, I'm sorry. Throw a correction out there.)
Florida continued it's early status in 2012. Michigan did not. FL will step back to what it used to be in 2016.
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