Thanks to the faithful reader in Dearborn Heights for a tip about a fascinating story of racial disenfranchisement among Michigan Democrats, a story the national media have shown little interest in.
Voters in mostly black Detroit "ran into a maze of problems" in Saturday's vote, according to the NBC affiliate's Channel 4 News.
"Leaders of four black groups in the state went as far as comparing Michigan's caucus mix-up to the events that took place in Florida during the 2000 presidential election," the station reported.
"We feel very strongly that African Americans were disenfranchised," complained Derek Albert, chairman of the Democrats' black caucus.
"You had people running from site to site looking for where they could vote. We're calling a new election.
"We just went through this in Florida in 2000. Michigan should be above this. The Democratic Party should be above this. We're not going to tolerate this," he told the Associated Press.
After caucus sites in Detroit were changed at the last minute, the party supposedly extended the end of voting from 4 to 6 p.m., but many closed at 4 anyway because they weren't told.
Mark Brewer, the state party's executive chairman, has acknowledged the problem but refuses to allow a new vote.
Detroit voter Duvall James fumed, "The one thing we have is a voice in our government to vote, and for them to screw up like this is just unconscionable."
No wonder Terry McAuliffe's headache Al Sharpton did so poorly in Michigan, a state Jesse Jackson easily won in 1988, to the humiliation of Michael Dukakis.
Good thing Al Gore wasn't in town to try to keep servicemen's votes from being counted.
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