I bet the UAW had something to do with that.
I hope this guy isn’t a big a RINO as is generally thought. Poor Michigan.
It’s very unusual for union members to cross party lines (not unheard of, but in most of those cases it’s members who are conservative); the independents, or rather, those tired of the whole “hold your nose to vote” candidates on the Demwit side have broken down whatever hold the straight-ticket mentality had on non-union members.
My favorite gubenatorial election was when Gov John Engler ran the second time; he was unopposed, so people had a grand time crossing over to vote for Fiegler. The union voters were rubber-stamping some doctrinaire hardliner who was at least a professional politician, I forget the name. But I remember how the union nimrods (I was surrounded and almost out of ammo) sighed, and then made lockstep for the Fiegler campaign.
He got his ass handed to him. It was embarrassing. And yet, this year he was being asked are-ya-or-aren’t-ya? Fiegler and Mike Cox are arch-enemies, so there were those (mostly in the press) who just wanted to see that matchup. Cox got knocked out of the primary.
Yeah, if Snyder is the second coming of Milliken or George *, he’ll be less than useless.
Here’s another noteworthy poll from Michigan.