Posted on 04/21/2006 9:36:58 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Below are the results of a three-day poll of likely voters in the state of Michigan. Results are based on telephone interviews with 1200 likely voters in Michigan, aged 18+, and conducted April 17-19, 2006. The margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points.
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The most important stats:
"13. If the election for Governor were held today, whom would you vote for Jennifer Granholm, the Democrat or Dick DeVos, the Republican?
Jennifer Granholm 43%
Dick DeVos 42%
Undecided 15%
16. If the election for United States Senate were held today, whom would you vote for Debbie Stabenow, the Democrat or Mike Bouchard, the Republican?
Debbie Stabenow 48%
Mike Bouchard 38%
Undecided 14%
17. If the election for United States Senate were held today, whom would you vote for Debbie Stabenow, the Democrat or Keith Butler, the Republican?
Debbie Stabenow 49%
Keith Butler 32%
Undecided 19%
18. If the election for United States Senate were held today, whom would you vote for Debbie Stabenow, the Democrat or Jerry Zandstra, the Republican?
Debbie Stabenow 49%
Jerry Zandstra 23%
Undecided 28%"
The poor economy in Michigan has clearly damaged Jennifer Graham. It might be affecting Debbie Stabenow, too.
I'm not sure, would poor state economy effect a federal office holder?
She has held public office in Michigan for many years, and can be easily charged as being ineffectual.
Plus see won because Spencer got pounded for wanted to expanded the Visa's for high-tech workers from the middle-east and got accuse of letting more Terriost into the country (By C.A.I.R) in TV ads.
We lived in Michigan when Stabenow first won (the kids use to call her "stub-her-toe" and "stab-in-owwww", still have never figured out why she won in the first place. As for Granholm, Engler was a tough act to follow and it's time Michigan had more than just a pretty face.
Is this AMWAY Dick DeVos ??
The Gov's race is clearly now DeVos's to lose. Bouchard seems to remain the strongest Senate candidate. Rev. Butler needs to join the DeVos ticket as Lt Gov.
Michigan looks like it could turn out very well for us this year.
She won in the first place because Spence Abraham had a face made for radio, and he ran an incredibly incompetent campaign. Debbie backed in.
PS: Never trust a women over the age of fifty who calls herself Debbie.
Yep.
Yeah, that's exactly what I think. Plus, Levin seems to overshadow her.
Dick, the son of Amway founder Rich DeVos, worked as Amway president for a few years. But he has primarily concentrated on his own businesses, rather than the family one.
I wouldn't dismiss the abject stupidity of the typical Michigan voter to give the Berkely communist another term. After all, she's not done destroying the state's economy. She could run on the campaign slogan "Now let me destroy the rest of the state" and these bags of hammers would line up and vote for Ms. Hillary Clone.
And we can't dismiss her hugely popular "cool cities" fiasco. Give the voters a streetlamp and fountain with a cool cities grant, add in a taxpayer-funded couscous stand, and the morons might go for a constitutional amendment allowing the commie to serve for life.
If I didn't have so much invested in this state, I'd probably have flown the coop back in '04 when the drooling dolts re-elected Levin the Loopy. And don't get me going on my utterly stupefied congresscritter...
someone here mentioned that all govs races in MI except 1998 are close
If Stabenow is in trouble, I may have to actually revise my prediction of a GOP NET GAIN of one to THREE---NJ, MN, and MI. (I'm assuming DeWine, Santorum, and Talent hold). Don't know about Burns, and I'm just sick about Kath. Harris not running a better race against a total lamebrain . . . but there is still lots of time. In seven months, heck, you could have three Dems resign due to corruption and it would be par.
Not in a state controlled by Detroit, Flint, Bay City and Saginaw who in turn are controlled by the socialists who in turn are supported by the unions.
Given that this is an off year election, there might not be as much Democratic success in getting the blind, crippled, crazy and dead out to the polls as there would be for a presidential election. If that is the case then Stabenow and Granholm could end up as losers.
"Michigan looks like it could turn out very well for us this year."
It has the potential to do so, but it won't pan out unless the Republican candidates run skilled campaigns.
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