That being the case it might not be hard to figure out why the MSM is ignoring them.  Why talk about moves that could do more to undermine the American electoral system than perhaps any others in the history of the Republic when you can talk about the neck-and-neck competition between Clinton and Obama and then toss it over to the entertainment desk for an update on the latest American Idol scandal.

Here's how it breaks down...

Even with the big wins yesterday the Clinton camp remains just out of striking distance of Barack Obama's delegate lead for the Democrat's Presidential nomination.  That would all change though, if, and this is a monster sized if... if the primary results from Florida and Michigan were actually allowed to stand and the delegates seated at the national convention.

Clinton's modest Michigan win (over "Uncommitted") would pay significant dividends if her Michigan soldiers actually had the chance to prowl the convention hall a few months from now.  But alas, they've been denied credentials.

Howard Dean and the Democrat National Committee continue to refuse to seat Michigan's legally elected delegates because they didn't like our primary date.  Will of the people?  Certified election results?  Democracy?  Bah.  Howard's way or the highway.  Michigan will play by the DNC's rules or Michigan won't play at all.  Now kneel before Zod.

As state after state holds contest after contest and a clear winner refuses to emerge from the field, calls are surfacing again to scrap Michigan's election results and to vote again.  Perhaps worse, the talk this morning revolves not around a fresh primary, where every voter who had a chance to vote the first time would have a chance to vote again (not that that really makes the eradication of our electoral principles any easier to swallow), but around a new caucus where thousands of party activists instead of millions of regular voters would make the new decision.  

According to the Detroit Free Press:

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a Clinton supporter, said the victory in Ohio changes "the landscape a bit" and could open the door to a Democratic caucus -- not a primary -- in Michigan, though it would have to be privately funded and both candidates would have to agree.

"Michigan and Florida votes should count. To not count them at all would alienate these states in the general election," she said...

U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who led the effort for an early primary, has said he is against a do-over. On Tuesday night, state Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer said it would require both Clinton and Obama and the national party to reach an agreement.

For once I agree with Carl Levin.  Tossing the results of a legally held and certified election because one does not like the result, the timing or the way one of the candidates crossed his or her eyes on a particular morning not only destroys the rule of law, it fundamentally and fatally undermines the principles of democracy.  Michigan would become nothing more than a banana republic.

Have a problem with election results?  Just vote again until they look better.  They do that sort of thing in third world dictatorships.  We don't do that in the United States of America.  At least not in forty-eight of them.  

I'm not a Hillary fan.  Frankly, I think she'd be a much tougher general election opponent for John McCain than Barack Obama would be.  Simply seating her legally elected delegates doesn't do me any favors personally.  And I can see a bright-side to holding this election again.  I laid a few of them out in jest HERE several weeks ago.  

But for all the pleasant damage this sort of thing could do to the integrity and finances of the Michigan Democrat Party and the remaining candidates for the Democrat nomination I can't help but put the fundamental principles of democracy a little bit higher up the food chain.  

First Knight is one of the more underrated Camelot tales ever to come out of Hollywood.  Sean Connery's King Arthur delivers several impressive lines throughout the film and one of them applies perfectly here.

"Either what we hold to be right and good and true is right and good and true for all men, under God, or we're just another robber tribe."

The rule of law counts.  Always.  If it doesn't count once it never counts again under the existing government.  Legally held elections either determine a winner the first time, every time or the government forfeits it's popular mandate.  Democracy ceases to exist and something far darker takes root.  It may not be directly at the point of a gun but it is no less oppressive.  

Those are the stakes Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are playing chicken with in their pursuit of political power.  Those are the stakes people like Chris Matthews are giddily discussing when they salivate on camera hoping for a revote here in Michigan.  Those are the stakes our legally elected leaders like Jennifer Granholm are discussing when they talk about new caucuses.  Heaven help us all if they get their way.