Real Clear Politics made an interesting point about
Michigan earlier today. In their effort to be one of the first primaries of the season, it was stripped of it delegates.
Now, it's the state's (possible) location at the end of the primary schedule that is making it so important. It just goes to show the full extent to which this year's election is different from the ones that have come before it, probably all the way back to at least 1992.
There is no conventional wisdom about any aspect of presidential contests that will help in predicting a state's importance or a candidate's success this year.
Michigan Democrats are trying to get a primary together by June 3, and doing so could make them the decisive state in an otherwise undecidable race.
