Make Florida count, some how, some way

Florida Democrats overwhelmingly say they should get to help pick the presidential nominee, with one in four voters warning in a new Miami Herald poll that they're less likely to support the party in November if the state is shut out.

Eighty-nine percent of the Democratic voters say it is "somewhat'' or "very important'' that Florida's delegates count. The Democratic national party stripped Florida and Michigan of delegates to the nominating convention because they held unauthorized early primaries. A record-setting number of Florida Democrats -- more than 1.7 million -- went to the polls anyway.

With neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama are clutching enough delegates to claim the nomination, the absence of the two big states from the scoreboard has been fiercely debated. Florida Democrats are divided over potential remedies, but a plurality say the national party should recognize Clinton's victory in the Jan. 29 primary.

"If there's one thing that this survey says, it's that you have to acknowledge the Jan. 29 primary on some level,'' said pollster Tom Eldon, who conducted the survey for The Herald, The St. Petersburg Times and Bay News 9. "You can't pretend it didn't exist. It was a legitimate election in the eyes of Florida Democrats.''

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"It was a legitimate election in the eyes of Florida Democrats.''

Umm, except that it wasn't