Hillary has now rounded up a bunch of fat cats willing to pour $12 million into a proposed redo of the Michigan primary. Obama's camp released a memo with a bunch of legal concerns, and it's not clear what the Clinton response is, although they're staying on the attack over the issue
The idea of doing a revote still seems right, but the details are becoming extremely questionable. Some of the legal questions posed in the Obama memo sound minor, but others are real concerns. For instance, 32% of the GOP primary was Dem/Independent votes, based on exit polls, and none of those voters would be eligible for the proposed second Democratic primary - an issue of both legality and fairness
Beyond that, it's hard to stomach the idea of a single candidate footing the bill for the primary. Yes, Obama could offer to split it 50/50, but it's hard to understand why he should have to pay for a revote when he followed the rules in the first place. If its not important enough to the DNC or the Michigan Democratic party to raise this money, maybe they should just skip it. I'm not even sure there'd be an issue had Hillary got her donors to anonymously offer the money to one of the neutral parties, but that doesn't seem plausible now that she's put out a press release on it
Hillary shot down the idea of using a caucus for the redo, obviously because she'd lose badly. Now she comes back and proposes a primary that by design and circumstance is completely stacked in her favor. It would still probably be the right thing for the Obama campaign to go along with it, but it's not hard to see why they're resisting
