Call it sour grapes if you want, but I feel the results of the Florida Democratic Primary (50% for Clinton, 33% for Obama) are deeply skewed. The fact that the national Democratic Party chose to penalize Florida for moving its presidential primary forward in the year by stripping the state of its convention delegates, essentially making voting meaningless, guaranteed that many Democratic voters would stay home. The only other issue on most ballots was a property tax proposal doubling the amount of the homestead exemption given to homeowners. The majority of Democratic voters who went to the polls probably did so to vote on the property tax issue, not to cast a meaningless vote for a presidential candidate. And what type of voters did the property tax issue attract? Homeowners. And homeowners tend to be white, middle-class, and older. Minorities, the poor, and the young, groups among whom Obama has greater support, had no real reason to vote since they tend to be renters, not homeowners.

It would be a moot issue if we knew that the Democratic Party's decision to not seat the Florida delegation was going to stick, but it probably won't. Someone at the convention will move to have the Florida delegation seated, and it will happen, and the results of the skewed Florida Primary will stand.

I can't help but wonder how different the numbers would have been if the primary had occurred under normal circumstances with all ages, classes, and ethnicities fairly represented.