What's a Michigan Dem to do?

By Libby

The Michigan primary is in a weird state of limbo on the Democratic side. They appear to the only state that screwed around with their primary date that is suffering some sort of punishment from their party. At this point, Hillary is the only major candidate appearing on the ballot and there's a push among the other candidates' supporters to get people to go out and vote for uncommitted in order to preserve some relevancy.

If "uncommitted" draws at least 15 percent of the vote in a congressional district, delegates not bound to any candidate could be sent to the national convention, possibly enabling Obama and Edwards supporters to play a role in the nomination.

"You can't afford not to vote in Michigan," Levin said. "It's critically important to vote to have impact on the delegates going to (the national party convention)."

On the other hand, the GOP are running a full slate and have not been penalized so Romney is looking to restore his credibility there and McCain is hoping to build some mo with another win. There's also an element among the Dems who are suggesting that Democrats cross over to screw around with the GOP results.

The whole thing is quite a mess but I'm inclined to go with the cross over theory. Hillary doesn't have strong support in the state and I believe the uncommitteds will win even without a huge turnout while the Dems have a real opportunity to influence who the opponent will ultimately be.

I've seen some talk of Dems voting for Huckabee to embarrass the Republicans but Huck scares me as much as Romney disgusts me and Huck's rising national numbers are nothing to toy with. I still think the Dems should cross over but I think they should vote for Ron Paul. That would really scare the GOPers and would keep Ron Paul in the race, which I still think is a good thing in order to keep the dialogue open.