Father's Day

So yesterday was Father's day, and I went over to my Dad's house for beer and cards and dinner and cake. We of course spent some time talking about the primary, my father being an enthusiastic Hillary supporter, and myself being an anybody-but-Hillary supporter. The topic of Michigan and Florida came up, and my father suggested that Edwards and Obama had conspired to remove their names from the Michigan ballot because they knew Hillary would win there. I argued, once again, that Obama would have won Michigan narrowly against Hillary, or by a pretty big margin with Edwards in the race playing "white man" spoiler. My father argued that since Michigan went early, Obama wouldn't have had time to compete there and Hillary would have won, since she was leading in the polls. I pointed out that Obama crushed Clinton in South Carolina. He replied "Oh, that was a Jesse Jackson state." Because, as we all know, states that Jesse Jackson won don't count this year. I replied:

"Ummm, Jesse Jackson won Michigan."

Hah! Nailed! That shut him up for a bit. Now I'm afraid that he'll do a little research today, find out that Michigan had a caucus in 1988, and e-mail me with that information — since, as we learned from the Clintons during the campaign — caucuses, along with African-Americans, don't count.