Hillary Clinton will visit Memphis Friday in honour of Dr. Martin Luther King. My colleague Suzy Goldenberg predicts she'll invoke King and frame the Florida and Michigan debate as a civil rights issue. Expect say something like:
Dr. King fought for civil rights, and we can't now deny millions of (black) voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard in this election.
In an e-mail to supporters today Clinton anticipated how she'll make the argument:
It is a bedrock American principle: we are all equal in the voting booth. No matter where you were born or how much money you were born into, no matter the color of your skin or where you worship, your vote deserves to count.
But millions of people in Florida and Michigan who went to the polls aren't being heard. The delegates they elected won't be seated at the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August -- and that's just not fair to those voters.
