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The race for the Democraticnomnation goes into sudden death!
More after this.

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When Florida and Michigan held their Democratic primaries, peole went to the pols and voted, it it didn't count.  The Democratic National Committee was punishing the states for moving their primaries so early and threatening to bring the race to a premature conclusion.

Now, of course, a premature conclusion sounds pretty good to a lot of Democrats.

So, CBS News Senior Political Correspondent Jeff Greenfield says Democrats are considering asking both state for I believe what would be called makeup sex:

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Why would the Clinton campaign want to take the risk of holding a re-vote in two states that, on paper at least, she won?

Because she thinks she can win again, that's why, and have it count this time.  Florida has concentrated Latino districts which seem to prefer her to Obama, and her newly discovered opposition to NAFTA would play well in Michigan.

And -- she's banking that the longer she keeps this in overtime, the more she makes Obama repeat the same speech, so what was once inspirational becomes routine.  And now that reporters have learned that they can poke at Obama without being called racist the coverage he gets is going to change.

Which prompts one to ask why woudl Barack Obama accept this.   
Well, according to CBS News Chief Political Consultant Marc Ambinder (am-BIN-der), he may not have a choice:

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And the voters?

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Why would they.  The whole reason they wanted to go early was to be as important as Iowa and New Hampshire -- and now... that may be exactly what happens.

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