Hillary in 08: Does Michigan Like Clinton in 08?

Clinton's two main rivals -- Barack Obama and John Edwards -- removed their names from the ballot, and the national party stripped Michigan of its delegates because it held the primary before Feb. 5, a violation of party rules.
Hillary Clinton scored a largely empty victory in Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary, taking slightly more than half the votes, while her main ballot opponent -- Uncommitted -- received about 40%.
Clinton led Uncommitted 55%-40% with 97% of the vote counted Tuesday night. About 600,000 people voted in the Democratic primary.
The National Election Pool poll, conducted by Edison/Mitofsky of New Jersey, surveyed 997 Democratic voters at 40 polling places in Michigan. The margin of error was plus or minus 4 percentage points.
"Anything over 50%, we're ecstatic," Blanchard said. "A win is a win is a win, given what happened in Iowa and New Hampshire."
Christina Montague, state coordinator of Michiganders for Obama, was happy with the result, and said it proved Obama's strength in Michigan.
"We didn't want to be totally disenfranchised," she said. "I think we've done a fabulous job. We really worked hard."
Relatively few independent and Republican voters chose to vote in the Democratic primary, the poll found.