What do you think is the political future of Michigan?

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There's going to be more swing states in the future.  Eventually it will look a little more like the 1950s and the 1960s, when there were very wild swings from one election to the other.  It's more exciting that way.

The swing states are not getting smaller, believe it or not.  Democrats are shedding some of their so-called "safe" states from the earlier part of the 21st century and so are Republicans.

Virginia has swung probably the most to Team Blue because it was soo Republican for so long.

I think Colorado too has become very socially progressive and that's really pushed it leftward.

Michigan is like Pennsylvania - a swing state if there ever was one, and an industrial state where there's been tremendous hardship in many of the small towns that once thrived on local industries.  The jobs are gone and there is very little left.  The Gilded Age is even spreading out to places like MI and PA, where the suburbs are becoming even more enriched while everyone else is drowning.

Only a full-on populist program from the Democrats (economic left, a la Eugene Debs) can get Michigan back into Blue arms.  Otherwise, it might just teeter on the edge and flip red from time to time.