What will the Democrats do about Florida and Michigan? I don't think they can totally ignore them without alienating voters there. But I also don't think that they can ratify the results when there wasn't a real campaign in either state. I believe they should hold another primary in each state, the cost to be borne by the party in those states since they were the ones who made the decision to defy the national party's rules and they are the ones now complaining. Probably not going to happen that way, however.

Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.

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