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Tracy Flick says the results of the Michigan primary should count after all. And Florida. Unless she loses Florida.

I'm thinkin' maybe that should have been decided before Obama and Edwards decided to withdraw their names from the ballot.

Now if I were a sleazebag here's what I would do: I would wait for my oppenents to withdraw from meaningless competitions, but leave my name on the ballot. Then I would say that the results should count after all.

OK, you caught me in a rhetorical flourish using that "if I were" phrase. Of course I AM a sleazebag, so this is just what I would actually do, not some hypothetical construct. I call this my Hedley Lamarr strategy: Get your opponent to drop his weapon because you are unarmed, then say "Sorry. I just remembered I AM armed."