Your are, of course, undoubtedly correct. People shouldn't be told they don't matter--that their votes won't count: Not in America. That kind of stuff is supposed to happen in Iran or Cuba, but not in Uncle Sam's own land.
I hate to descend to a lower plane, because having votes counted is so astronomically important in a democracy, but I will nonetheless...
A thought on the nomination race: Even if the delegates are never seated, Hillary (who ,by the way, I won't vote for) wins big by hitting Barack over the head with the vote voiding issue.
Everyday that Obama continues to stands against counting votes he undermines his own candidacy's central theme. He presents himself at the embodiment of change, a new kind of politician who will not sacrifice principle for expediency.
Yet, he makes the argument that because Hillary's motives aren't pure, he is justified in holding-out against counting the votes. Nobody doubts what his motives are---exactly the same as hers. Every time the issue is mentioned their moral equivalence is re-highlighted.
Obama can't prevent the issue from making him look just as self-interested and manipulative as her. For him, it is a political tar baby. He can't touch it without leaving a piece of his political flesh stuck to it when he tries to get away.
She's running as the "tested realist." He's running as a high road idealist. This issue has flipped him on his back and will erode his credibility every minute he allows it to continue.
It is never a good idea to sacrifice principle for tactical advantage. Often, the decision to do so jumps up later to hook you and never let you loose. Hillary, repeatedly mentioning the voided votes, is rubbing the shine off Barack's campaign without paying any cost herself. His protests about her motives only illustrate his own culpability.
In living memory, his candidacy is probably the single least able to survive repeated exposure of such open self-interested maneuvering. He's offering himself as a political savior and looking ever more like yesterday's breed of paint-by-the-numbers political operative.
She's found the solvent to dissolve his hard won image. His own eloquence becomes a disadvantage because it will be seen as fancy concealment of the person below--the person whose real values are clearly revealed by his own actions.
Just repeat it and repeat it and repeat it and day by day his prospects will fade.....fade by his own actions regardless of how pretty he talks. In March, Gallop says Clinton is up no less than five points. By convention time, the issue will have eaten up a few more of Obama's points and the superdelegates won't have a hard choice to make.
