To: California Patriot
"I'm aware that Michigan is a two-party state. Just saying that the Republicans aren't in especially good shape in statewide races, due mainly to 70 years of union propaganda. Partisanship is most powerful in Senate races, and the state's Rat majority, plus incumbency, plus a bad national climate for Republicans make it impossible to beat Stabenow this year."
Michigan's House and Senate is dominated by Republicans by a wide margin. Just because its listed as a "Blue" state doesn't mean its anything close to the liberal blue states.
The RAT cities are losing their population and clout at blinding speed.
Michigan is nothing like California, Maine, Oregon, etc.
63 posted on
08/26/2006 4:52:24 AM PDT by
Beagle8U
(Ronald Reagan didn't turn me into a Republican....Jimmy Carter did that!!)
To: Beagle8U
That's a Republican gerrymander, isn't it? Plus, Democratic votes are often wasted anyway in legislative elections, because Rats are often more concentrated than Republicans. If Detroit, Flint, etc., have 80 percent Rat districts, and the Republican areas have 55-percent Republican districts, the Republican voters are spread out more efficiently, and therefore elect more legislators than their statewide percentage would suggest.
Those are the ways in which you can get a Republican legislature, and/or congressional delegation, in a state that tilts toward the Rats in statewide races. Another big factor is simply that Stabenow is the incumbent, and, unlike the governor, isn't held at all responsible for Michigan's economic death spiral. So the vote is determined by name recognition, union endorsements, and ideology.
65 posted on
08/26/2006 12:10:59 PM PDT by
California Patriot
("That's not Charlie the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
To: Beagle8U
About Michigan's future, you may have a good point. But it doesn't really matter if Detroit is losing population, if Detroit people are simply moving out to the cheaper burbs.
They still vote.
66 posted on
08/26/2006 12:12:52 PM PDT by
California Patriot
("That's not Charlie the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
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