Everyone needs to calm down about MI and FL delegates

The media fury over FL and MI delegates is way overblown. For starters, what many seem to ignore, is that the FL and MI representatives voted in FAVOR of the rules stripping them of their delegates. The rule was proposed, they voted for it, it became a rule, they violate it and now are all up in arms that they are being punished in precisely the manner they voted for. If the democratic voters of MI and FL are upset with the outcome then they have a clear recourse, vote out their party representatives next time delegates are up for a vote and vote in people who will oppose these rules.

I am not saying I am against a new round of legitimate primaries, but lets tone it down a notch on the whole being disenfranchised thing. FL and MI favored these rules. They should have voted against them if they were so onerous and opposed "disenfranchising" voters. A new round of primaries makes sense, as they should hold primaries at the appropriate time, just like everyone must hold their general election on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November. If they don't, it doesn't count. Simple as that.

I think there is a second major point to be made here. The press makes these "do-over" primaries to be the savior for the mess that is the Democratic nomination process at the moment. Both candidates are quite a ways a way from having enough delegates, and look, low and behold here are 2 delegate rich states to push them over the mark right? Wrong. What they fail to tell you is that adding MI and FL will simply RAISE the number of delegates needed. Whoever wins these states will only net a few dozen delegates if they are lucky (assuming of course that they don't split and therefore net no delegates). The bar will be raised by the adding of more delegates...after all you still need more than half of the delegates to secure the nomination, and therefore little will be gained. In fact, NOTHING will be gained if the candidates split the delegates evenly. In other words if there are 500 delegates added by these states the bar will be raised by 250 delegates and therefore Obama and Clinton taking 250 delegates a piece accomplishes nothing. One taking 270 and the other 230 also accomplishes very little, since neither one is even close to securing enough pledged delegates to get the nomination. If, somehow, one of them took 100% of the delegates from these states, they STILL would likely fall short of enough pledged delegates to get over the number required. So, I say again, give it a rest already.