Democrats poised to win Michigan Senate for first time in nearly 40 years

The Hill ^ | 11/09/2022 | JULIA MUELLER

[ChicagoConservative27]

Democrats are set to take control of Michigan’s Senate seats for the first time in four decades, winning a “trifecta” of power over both chambers in the state legislature and the governor’s mansion in Tuesday’s midterms.

Michigan Senate Democrats announced early Wednesday morning that they had won enough seats to take the majority in the state’s upper chamber.

[kiryandil]

The Democrats sewed Michigan up for good in the summer of 2018, when they got hold of the 2016 general election ballots for the red Michigan counties.

Betcha didn't know that one, eh, bella?  

[bella1]

I'm in a red county. Overwhelmingly conservative and our votes reflect such. The blue counties are the most populated so no surprises.

[themidnightskulker]

If you gave the I-75 corridor from Detroit to Saginaw to Canada, Michigan would be almost as red as Wyoming. (and crime would be almost zero.

[bella1]

Were you not paying attention to the new voter registration numbers? The Dems far outpaced the Reps especially on college campuses. Not even close. I've lost count of how many of my friends and relatives children raised conservative and Christian return from college as neither and vote accordingly. We are living in the past if we fail to recognize the demographic change in ideology. Thank God my children weren't indoctrinated.

[fuzzylogic]

I live here...no way it is getting more blue. NO WAY. Something is very wrong.

[kiryandil]

I'm in a red county. Overwhelmingly conservative and our votes reflect such. The blue counties are the most populated so no surprises.

In 2018, there was a blue wave in the red counties in Michigan.

There was NO blue wave in the MI blue counties in 2018.

That's because the blue counties told the "voters group" that was acquiring the 2016 Michigan ballots that they couldn't honor the FOIA until January of 2019, because they were too big to collate that information in a timely manner [before the 2018 "election"].

No worries!

The Michigan "blue wave" came in the red counties. Surprise, surprise, SURPRISE!! :)

[virgil]

MI can join IL with the already dead.

[bella1]

Yes, but the population center is in SE Michigan. We left the Detroit area for small town conservative northern Michigan years ago. Our friends born and raised here still don't grasp the voting power of downstate. They look at all the Rep yard signs and can't figure out how we lost! There are just under 900 people in my small town in a small county. I had 700 in my high school graduating class for comparison.

[frogjerk]

Thanks to the Dobbs decision.

All of those babies that should have been dead are sorry for your loss.

[skeeter]

It’s their issues are always driving turnout, never ours. It always our candidates personalities turning voters off, never theirs.

This post election navel gazing exercise we go through ever time is tiresome.

[dfwgator]

Let’s face it, to us, Politics and Government is a necessarily evil.

To them, it’s the be-all end-all of their existence.

[kiryandil]

I live here...no way it is getting more blue. NO WAY. Something is very wrong.

posts #25, #27, #34, #40, #41 and #46

[bella1]

The last map I looked at showed all of northern Michigan..lower peninsula..staying red except except Grand Traverse. No surprise there as it is a college town and very “welcoming”. So I'm not seeing the blue wave of which you speak happening in red counties.

[PermaRag]

Not being reported anywhere yet that I’ve seen, but Democrats are VERY close to taking control of the state House (but not the Senate) here in Pennsylvania too.

Once the Democrats finished their gerrymandering of the state districts, this was very easy to see coming as I have posted a few times in the past. The PA Senate now, for the next 2 years anyway until it possibly flips from R to D, is our only firewall against Nazi Joshie Shapiwo. And PA GOP politicians are notoriously squishy, with minor exceptions, so they probably can’t wait to cave to their new Nazi overlord on any important issue.

PA really has a shitload in common with Michigan. And most of it is bad. Let’s see which state officially implodes first.

[themidnightskulker]

Agreed. I live in the boonies in Ogemaw, and everyone I know are conservative.

Only 8 or 9 counties (could be a couple more, I haven’t seen the map yet) carried the state for the Dems. not saying there aren’t libs where I am, but concentration is there.

[kiryandil]

We left the Detroit area for small town conservative northern Michigan years ago.

They rigged the counties surrounding Grand Traverse County in 2018 and 2020.

It looks like they did it again in 2022.

That's what the Antrim kerfluffle was all about.

Somebody screwed up, but "Dirty Josey" and Nazi Nessel managed to spackle over that little problem.

[kiryandil]

see my posts #25, #27, #34, #40, #41 and #46

[kiryandil]

https://www.politico.com/2022-election/results/michigan/statewide-offices/

[Wallace T.]

If the U.S. military had not won the Battle of the Fallen Timbers in 1794, the area that became Detroit would have remained under British control. Perhaps we should have let the Indians, who were aided by the British win. Had that happened, Michigan might have become Canada’s eleventh province.

[dfwgator]

Then I wouldn’t have had to endure so many bad seasons for the Detroit Lions.