MI-GOV Megathread: 👵🏻 Gram died alone.

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It is worth noting that the Democrats have had a lucky streak in Michigan as of late. With the top GOP contender (James Craig) potentially having just doomed himself from the nomination and Democrats having overperformed in several MI statewide elections. I still think it's a toss-up but of the toss-ups I'd now argue that this is the most likely to remain Democrat.

The GOP has shot themselves in the foot over and over again. Like in hindsight Slotkin and Stevens should've been more serious targets in 2020 and they should've taken MI-Sen 2020 more seriously. MI-Sen 2014 was also embarrassing.

Also on the statewide office levels, the GOP always seems to run people outside the mainstream who really struggle to connect with voters and come off as either too extreme and/or too in it for themselves.

Considering they could still increase margins in many communities in the state and the main Dem vote get; Detroit, has been shrinking, the GOP really needs to take the state more serious long term, especially since the new maps make the state legistlature more competative and a Dem trifecta isn't out of the question this decade.

Wayne county isn’t really shrinking very fast and the main places gaining population Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, and the Detroit suburbs are all rapidly trending D so I don’t think this is as important as you’re making it out to be.

Exactly. It benefits democrats that Detroit is shrinking and is becoming a less dense concentration of democratic voters. When those voters move to the D burbs or to Lansing, Grand Rapids, etc it really helps the democrats' ability to win more state legislative seats and Congressional seats as they are more evenly spread out.

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https://twitter.com/CraigDMauger/status/1528887371869343745

This is hilarious and, I'd guess, unprecedented.

Do they (James Craig and the rest) have any recourse on this decision? Is this final?

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Alright so what's Whitmer going to use her second genie wish on?

If I were her, I would wish that her would-be murderers who got off instead got the justice they deserved.

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Alright so what's Whitmer going to use her second genie wish on?

If I were her, I would wish that her would-be murderers who got off instead got the justice they deserved.

Well, they deserve to be executed, and that isn't happening, so she probably should wish for something else (like a Biden victory in 2024, maybe with her replacing Harris on the ticket?).

I was thinking more like life in prison, as I weirdly assumed we were going by Aladdin genie rules (no killing, no making someone fall in love, no wishing for more wishes) as I always do when someone hypothetically asks what I would wish for.