[cripplecreek]

Reagan knew how to win Michigan but today’s fine conservatives are too busy kicking the people Reagan brought to his side to want to talk to them.

It plays right into the hands of the democrats.

[Clemenza]

Reagan won Michigan for the same reason Nixon did: a backlash against bussing/crime, as well as residual anti-communism among those of eastern European ancestry in metro Detroit and Lansing.

Western Michigan has the sane, but eastern Michigan has the bodies. Its the reverse of Washington State in that regard.