2 thoughts on the Digest: If any of you are too young to remember the Obama Presidency or need a reminder, Joe Wilson was the congressman who lied by yelling out "You lie!" at President Obama during a State of the Union speech, helping to bring about the current climate of inveterate lying and racist hostility from the Republican Party. …
2 thoughts on the Digest: If any of you are too young to remember the Obama Presidency or need a reminder, Joe Wilson was the congressman who lied by yelling out "You lie!" at President Obama during a State of the Union speech, helping to bring about the current climate of inveterate lying and racist hostility from the Republican Party. So while strokes are terrible and I wish him well on a human level, I don't have any special sympathy for him. And the other one is, will the Democrats really lose MI-07?
Rogers and Bishop held the district with relative ease for nearly two decades, even if Eaton County was gerrymandered out. Now, more than ever, it's pretty much Lansing vs. everywhere else. If Barrett can successfully sell himself as the normal and sane, his superior name rec could easily carry him to a win, and make himself very hard to dislodge. Hopefully the GOP margins in the rurals and exurbs has hit their ceiling here, but that remains to be seen.
Pres margins in the 9 townships with Lansing at center (41.5% of district):
2 thoughts on the Digest: If any of you are too young to remember the Obama Presidency or need a reminder, Joe Wilson was the congressman who lied by yelling out "You lie!" at President Obama during a State of the Union speech, helping to bring about the current climate of inveterate lying and racist hostility from the Republican Party. So while strokes are terrible and I wish him well on a human level, I don't have any special sympathy for him. And the other one is, will the Democrats really lose MI-07?
I don't trust any house polling numbers without the seeing the corresponding presidential election numbers.
I'd have a healthy skepticism of the presidential numbers, too, but it looks like this campaign needs support, in any case.
On MI-07:
Rogers and Bishop held the district with relative ease for nearly two decades, even if Eaton County was gerrymandered out. Now, more than ever, it's pretty much Lansing vs. everywhere else. If Barrett can successfully sell himself as the normal and sane, his superior name rec could easily carry him to a win, and make himself very hard to dislodge. Hopefully the GOP margins in the rurals and exurbs has hit their ceiling here, but that remains to be seen.
Pres margins in the 9 townships with Lansing at center (41.5% of district):
D+53.6k-->D+41.5k-->D+43.6k-->D+59.1k
Remainder (58.5% of district):
R+13.1k-->R+31.2k-->R+58.3k-->R+54.8k
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