MI-Glengariff: El-Sayed down 4, Whitmer up 7 to Schuette

[IceSpear]

https://www.scribd.com/document/369748990/January-Statewide-Survey

No primary matchup

They all have roughly the same name approval (about 26%)

But it's

Schuette (R): 33
Whitmer (D): 40

and

Schuette (R): 38
El-Sayed (D): 34

People are prejudiced against Muslims, unfortunately.

Ah yes! Regardless of their qualifications or views, if you don't vote for the minority you're a racist!

I have no qualms with voting against a Muslim because of policy, or their personal character, or something like that. But this poll has two democratic challengers with the almost exact same level of name recognition. One is a white woman, and she leads the R by 7 points. The other is a Muslim man with a Muslim name who is losing by 4 points. The campaign has barely started, and there's a 11 point discrepancy. Islamophobia.

I mean maybe people don't like El Sayed because he's much further left than Whitmer but whatever

I doubt that. Most people have no idea who Whitmer or El Sayed are, much less detailed knowledge of their policy views.

[IceSpear]

Whitmer is a much stronger candidate in general, so the results aren’t too surprising.

She's had a bunch of really weak polls, so this is somewhat surprising, actually. I mean it shouldn't be, but it is.

It's name recognition. Even in this poll nobody cracks 40%. Polls this early are worthless. The fundamentals definitely favor Whitmer though.