Posted on 09/29/2004 2:45:47 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
If Bush wins Michigan, stick a fork in him...
Kerry.
Exactly stick a fork in Kerry if Bush wins Michigan! LOL
Maybe we need to send in Tehrezzah to help them make up their minds.
Hey, "It's just one state!"
Bush - 50%
Kerry - 47%
Nader - 2 to 3% (protest votes mostly)
Stick a BIG FORK in Kerry and through him onto the trash heap of history!
He's not only "done", he's BURNED!
Sounds good to me!
Make that Kerry 48%!
You type FAST!
Too early in the morning!
No matter who wins, the next four years are going to be tough for Michigan. The auto industry is going into a funk. We are just coming off of an auto buying binge, and consumers who just bought new cars aren't going to want to buy yet again. Moreover, the cost of owning a car is going up fast. The price of gas is skyrocketing, as are interest rates and manufacturing costs. The price of steel has shot up, electricity and oil are increasing, and health insurance costs are eating into the bottom line.
I expect a lot of layoffs in the auto industry over the next 4 years no matter who gets elected. The Democratic icon, Jennifer Granholm, had better get ready. She's going to have a lot of explaining to do.
Just pulled that one out of thin air, didn't you?
2000 was an exception; undecideds will likely break against the incumbent.
I agree with you. For some reason a group of folks here insist on spreading the opposite.
I'm always queasy when it comes to these cannibalistic references.
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Yes (it was floating in the "thin air" between your ears)!
I wonder if Granholm's hand-wringing cuts and games she's playing (with the cooperation of both parties in the capitol) is eroding Democrat support here in Michigan. She committed a HUGE blunder by catering to Detroit and unions, and cost the state millions in private educational dollars when she backed out of a charter school deal at the last minute. She's slashed state services and employees down to the bare bones, has remaining employees picking up the slack AND being forced to work a 38 hour work week. They have to bank that 2 hours or take it unpaid.
The recent tax shift made huge headlines in all the major papers (the Freep, News, Oakland Press) because its just a sleight of hand trick to boost state coffers.
People are finally seeing the Canadian Trash for what she is and they're not liking it.
Yup. I lived in Michigan for 20 years--grew up there. The most fundamental driving force in Michigan politics is the auto industry. If the industry is in a funk, the governor is going to get the blame--it's as simple as that.
Granholm has not done much to help the industry. Her concern has been for the unions. Of course, the unions do better if the industry does better, but it doesn't follow that the industry does better if the unions do better. Granholm was elected on the premise that she was going to fix the Michigan economy. If it goes into the toilet (again), she's not going to have much of an excuse, and no one is going to have much of a reason to vote for her.
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