I did not like the way the DNC or the Democratic party 'elders' handled this whole election cycle. We have a system, which we don't like, but they made and apparently they don't like if they can't push out an entire field of candidates and limit it to one early in the process. Old politics...Iowa and New Hampshire pick our candidate and the others are to drop out of sight. The democratic convention is no longer where the candidate is decided but a room full of baloons and confetti and rah rah rah. If August is 'too late' to allow all states to vote and pick a candidate at the convention- then move the convention up, change the nominating process and get rid of this screwed up delegate split where a candidate can get 70% of the vote and end up with only one more delegate than the loser with 30%.

Okay- sorry got off topic and into a rant. It's too late to change our nominating system for this cycle but as races get closer in competition (like the last two presidential races and this democratic primary) then our system needs changing for the year 2012. Florida should have been given a waiver just like the other 3 states because part of their moving it up early was to get paper trail ballots. They should have resolved this in the beginning with both Mi and Fl rather than waiting until May 31st when they knew it wouldn't be 'game changing'. The process then became unfair because of the foot dragging of the DNC and the RBC.

I am an undecided voter. Undecided whether I will vote for Obama (depending on how he handles himself and how the next 5 months goes) or will sit it out and not vote. I have that luxury. I live in CA.

I did what I did to 'punish' the DNC already. As a registered Democrat for over 40 years- I changed my registration to 'Decline to State'. As a DS in my state I can choose whatever primary ballot I want to vote on. I could as an Independent also ...but didn't want to join the Independent Party. When the DNC sent me another one of their emails asking for money. I unsubscribed. They send you to a screen that asks you why. I simply said- 'changing party affiliation'. They don't make it easy to unsubscribe because they have to email you a 4 digit code to finish the process it took me two days and 4 tries to get them to email me a 4 digit code. After the down ticket primary in my state on June 3- I sent the DNC a copy of my change in party affiliation the same day I sent it to the Secretary of State Elections Division in my state. As an AV- not an LV...they do keep track. They (the party) is 'wringing their hands' over the divided party...they deserve to and maybe take a look back at what went wrong and improve the system in the future.