The HUGE presidential race story everyone missed  AttyTood: The
backstory of Michigan is essentially this. When state officials
decided last year to move the primary in the Wolverine State up
to ton   The backstory of Michigan is essentially this. When
state officials decided last year to move the primary in the
Wolverine State up to tonight, Jan. 15, and leapfrog over other
key states, they infuriated Democratic party officials eager to
preserve South Carolina, a southern state with a large black
population, as an early test. So much so that the Democratic
National Committee actually stripped Michigan of its 156
convention delegates. And they did the same thing to Florida --
which is even more delegate rich, with 210 -- for moving its
primary ahead to Jan. 29.  And yet, here's the thing: Michigan
Democrats went ahead and essentially elected those delegates
last night anyway. The truth is, no one really expected that the
Democrats would hold a convention without delegates from the
4th-largest state, Florida,