While Obama took the Nation to new heights yesterday in terms of what is possible, Clinton is busy today taking us to old lows, groveling for revotes in Michigan and grousing about Obama wanting to disenfranchise voters. Make that only Democratic voters, not Republican voters who voted in the Michigan primary: they will not be able to vote again. That is why Obama is objecting to a revote. Curiously, Hillary’s charge is getting the most ink and air on this one.

It’s a funning thing about cross-over votes. They will be needed in the general election, but they have been a knotty problem for the primaries. Clinton does the complaining when she doesn’t get them, but not the complaining when she does. And there is a not-so subtitle difference here. The early cross-over votes in the early primaries, Republicans crossing over to vote for Democrats, went mostly to Obama because voters liked what they saw in his candidacy. The Republican voters in the latest primaries, especially Texas and Mississippi, are cross-overs who have been egged on by Rush Limbaugh to vote for Hillary to extend the primaries and keep the dog fight going and “bloody-up Obama“. In Texas it appears that Clinton’s margin in the popular vote can be attributed to this mischief. In Mississippi, 13 percent of the voters in the Democratic Primary were Republican with 78 percent of those voting for Clinton in her losing effort. What an alliance!?

My guess is that the selection of a candidate can be determined without Florida and Michigan. Governor Philip Bredesen, Governor of Tennessee, has a solution that I think can work: a “caucus” of super delegates the first week in June. The 40 percent of those who have not decided yet would make their decision then. This should carry the day and then Florida and Michigan can be seated, although some penalties should apply.