In other breaking news, the sun is rising in the east this morning.
The midwest states are key. The auto industry collapse due to oil price manipulation in an election year will reverberate deep into the midwest, into states nominally red. The foreign enemies and adversaries of the USA have studies our electoral maps carefully.
Hopefully even more counties will have a huge Republican turnout in November.
Michigan demographics have changed for the worst.
The state is infested with welfare bums, con-men and thieves, while hundreds of thousands of productive, working citizens have left. The attorneys around here specialize in finding crooked quacks who will affirim injuries, either mental or physical, so citizen-bums can collect SS disability or workmen’s comp.
A recent school bond issue had fat welfare mommas and their drunk boyfriends, who don’t own property, pouring into the voting booths to raise taxes on property owners.
The demographers will confirm Michigan’s status as a leftist welfare hellhole soon. The state is deep socialist red and Mr. McCain should not waste a penny or minute here.
The Yoopers do tend to vote for the RATS but the reason is that most of them go on welfare in the winter months.
With the price of gas, tourism is in the toilet, heating fuel prices will hit about election time, and the Yoopers aren't very happy about the RATS ideas on oil drilling.
The unions have lost a ton of members in the past 4 years and the UAW workers vote is almost evenly split R/D. Gun control is the #1 reason for that split. Michigan is a gun state!
Detroit has also lost a ton of population.
IMO Michigan is an “even money” bet for 2008 but I give McCain a slight edge because of the gun issue.
You also must factor in the Bradly effect. I don't think you can compare numbers for any prior RAT pol to Obama.
BTW, That heating fuel issue is going to hit hard in all the GL states!
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