MI-GOV Megathread: 👵🏻 Gram died alone.

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So...I'm hearing things aren't looking too good?

In what respect?

Ballot signature scandals surrounding Craig and I think some other candidates.

Are signature challenges a scandal now? I wasn't aware there were races where they didn't happen. I know campaign staffers who put "challenge signatures" in their standard calendar.

Even if Craig is removed from the ballot, it's not like he was unopposed. The Republicans will have a nominee in a state where turnout and Whitmer's unpopularity should give them a major edge. Perhaps even more so if voters think that they lost their first choice due to election law chicanery.

Based on what I'm reading, the Democrats would need to succeed on over 6,000 challenges. I've never heard of something like that happening.

This in particular is hilarious:

The Democratic challenge to Dixon’s signatures focus on an apparent error in the header of her nominating petitions. The campaign indicated she was running for a term that ends in 2026, but under the Michigan Constitution, the gubernatorial term will actually end on the first day of 2027.

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“The inaccurate, misleading and false information” included in the header of  “every petition filed by the Dixon campaign violates the Michigan election law and voids those petitions,” [Democratic attorney] Liedel said.

Who says Whitmer is "unpopular"?

She literally broke her own c0vid regulations which comes off as elitist and holier than thou. And you actually believe she's not unpopular?

He worships at the feet of the D-biased hack polls saying a blue wave is coming.

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Good, this clown belong nowhere near the nomination.

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https://twitter.com/markcavitt/status/1535086891351126017?s=21&t=Mx-uAmAwqQN...

If MI GOP is smart they would endorse Craig at this point. But they haven't proven themselves to be competent yet

Nah, if Craig couldn't get on the ballot he wasn't a good candidate.

Republicans cannot afford to nominate Kelley at any cost.

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Am I crazy for thinking Republicans could win ME, NM, OR, MN and even CT before winning MI and PA?

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Whoever Trump endorses is probably going to be the Republican nominee here.

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They're really making it easy on Whitmer.

https://twitter.com/tripgabriel/status/1542660575976734721

The same as in senate races. I feel like Republicans are way too overconfident that they win regardless instead of playing it safe as the Democrats did in 2018. They focused on bread and butter issues and nominated strong candidates fitting their districts/states.

That again tells you that one party and its base moved way to the extreme while the other party just slighty moved. Yet I hear the media often talk about how "Democrats moved far-left".

Democrats have moved far-left in the last 15 years. Notice how there are virtually no real blue dogs left?

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They're really making it easy on Whitmer.

https://twitter.com/tripgabriel/status/1542660575976734721

The same as in senate races. I feel like Republicans are way too overconfident that they win regardless instead of playing it safe as the Democrats did in 2018. They focused on bread and butter issues and nominated strong candidates fitting their districts/states.

That again tells you that one party and its base moved way to the extreme while the other party just slighty moved. Yet I hear the media often talk about how "Democrats moved far-left".

Democrats have moved far-left in the last 15 years. Notice how there are virtually no real blue dogs left?

Blue Dogs were essentially center-right, and the majority of the Democratic Party is center-left. Not even Bernie is "far left" by any serious definition, he's de facto a Social Democrat. Obviously cultural issues change over time and society generally becomes more liberal on some issues such as support for same-sex-marriage.

Of course, Republicans like to fearmonger and anything to the left of Joe Manchin is a socialist or communist in their books. But it's objectively not true, and voting records and positions of Republican officeholders have moved far more to the right than Democrats moved to the left:

https://twitter.com/pewresearch/status/1501997074266656772

"Blue Dogs were center right"

And are Republicans such as Phil Scott, Charlie Baker, and others not center-left? The GOP has a much larger ideological tent than the Democrats, who hate people such as Schrader and Cuellar who still vote with Biden 96% of the time while some Republicans vote with Biden nearly half the time.

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538 literally has MI safer than VT lol