I was reading CNN’s compilation of thoughts from Michigan voters and also heard from a friend in the state this morning. I don’t think it is a surprise that the sentiment coming from Democrats there is not a pleasant one because in short, their voices were not heard. That isn’t to say they aren’t happy with Senator Clinton, all things being equal she might have won anyway, but because the state’s delegates will be denied from the convention and because their race was uncontested.

I have made no secret on this blog that I am not in favor of keeping Iowa and New Hampshire’s hold over either parties nomination process. This was a concoction that has only developed since the 1970’s and in short it is one that won’t last. When we look at the mainstream media’s desire to call the entire Democratic nomination after just the small state of Iowa’s caucus, you see the sheer stupidity of this system and how it can be mishandled.

If the parties are going to uphold a rolling nomination fight then it would make more sense to pair states. Take a populous state like New York in the northeast and pair it with a less populous state in the Midwest like Iowa or Wyoming. Then take a populous state in the South like Texas and pair it with a less populous state in the Northeast like Vermont or New Hampshire.

But whatever, for the moment we have given a monopoly to Iowa and New Hampshire and to protect this process the people of Michigan lost the right to have a real say in the process. Why? Because their party dared to challenge a system that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

The Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee need to think long and hard about this nominating process and about the overwhelming power they give to a few early states at the expense of the rest of the nation. They need to think about how the media has mishandled this process, how the candidates spend their time and how they can make the system better.

In short, they need to stop and think because the biggest loser last night was the Democratic Party who silenced a state with eighteen electoral votes to uphold the supremacy of two states whose electoral votes total eleven combined. What is the incentive for a Democrat or an Independent, who felt slighted by that party last night, to race out in support of it in a general election? Exactly, very little.

The DNC told the 10,095,643 people living in Michigan it doesn’t care about their voice as much as the 4,296,980 people living in Iowa and New Hampshire combined. I understand the party wanted to maintain its rules, but how about maintaining their own viability? In short, stupid, stupid, stupid.