Former President Trump topped President Biden by 8 points among Michigan registered voters in a poll of a hypothetical rematch of the 2020 election. The CNN poll released Friday found 50 percent of…
I always thought Michigan was pretty anti-Republican, in a similar way to Illinois. But I’m pretty sure Michigan has a big problem with white rural/suburban conservatives, so my guess is they’ve become more emboldened and riled up recently due to the Republican radicalization, and they’re more “passionate” about voting now than they were in previous elections – analogous to what happened with Democrats and blacks/latinos/liberal women in Georgia in the 2020 elections.
But that’s just a hypothesis, I’m not exactly knowledgeable on Michigan… I’m from Georgia and am in the process of moving to Illinois.
Michigan is historically republican leaning to a toss up in local elections and democratic leaning in national elections. Trump was the only republican to win a presidential election there in about 40 years or so, both senators have been democrats as well.
Michigan got fucked hard as the auto companies left the country, and it’s never really recovered. Pro-nafta opinions aren’t popular. Michigan also has a high Arab population, they likely won’t vote Trump, but if they stay home it’s bad for Biden. There’s still a lot of active racist militias in Michigan, there’s also heavily segregated cities.
Michigan lacks a truly large city to dictate politics at the state level, like Illinois and Chicago. There’s also the occasional issue with being a border state, unpopular federal decisions get used to win votes on both sides.
I live in Michigan and basically as soon as you go into any rural area, it’s Trump Land. Complete with crazy hand painted signs calling Biden a demon and praising Trump as a god.
I always thought Michigan was pretty anti-Republican, in a similar way to Illinois. But I’m pretty sure Michigan has a big problem with white rural/suburban conservatives, so my guess is they’ve become more emboldened and riled up recently due to the Republican radicalization, and they’re more “passionate” about voting now than they were in previous elections – analogous to what happened with Democrats and blacks/latinos/liberal women in Georgia in the 2020 elections.
But that’s just a hypothesis, I’m not exactly knowledgeable on Michigan… I’m from Georgia and am in the process of moving to Illinois.
Michigan is historically republican leaning to a toss up in local elections and democratic leaning in national elections. Trump was the only republican to win a presidential election there in about 40 years or so, both senators have been democrats as well.
Michigan got fucked hard as the auto companies left the country, and it’s never really recovered. Pro-nafta opinions aren’t popular. Michigan also has a high Arab population, they likely won’t vote Trump, but if they stay home it’s bad for Biden. There’s still a lot of active racist militias in Michigan, there’s also heavily segregated cities.
Michigan lacks a truly large city to dictate politics at the state level, like Illinois and Chicago. There’s also the occasional issue with being a border state, unpopular federal decisions get used to win votes on both sides.
I live in Michigan and basically as soon as you go into any rural area, it’s Trump Land. Complete with crazy hand painted signs calling Biden a demon and praising Trump as a god.
That’s any rural part of America.
True. I’m just stating what I’ve seen firsthand.