What are the chances of Levin retiring?
Only for reasons of health, which one can say of anyone as old as he. The Democrats will have one huge brittle Republican target in 2014 -- see the other PPP poll of Michigan.
Not germane to this discussion, but the perennially-putrid Detroit Alley Cats football team is the favorite NFL team in Michigan with only 50%. Except for Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids the state's biggest population areas are within 80 miles of Detroit. I am surprised that the Chicago Bears don't muscle in on the Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo TV market.