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Posted at 9:33am on Mar. 21, 2008 MI Morning Update: Michigan Primary Do-Over Dead- Ideas for Tax Reform

By saul anuzis

229 Days until Election Day

MORNING UPDATE:

Democrat Speaker Andy Dillon pronounces that the “do over” Democrat primary is all but “dead”…Clinton forces are trying to maneuver a comeback/winback…if anyone can pull this off and snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat…it’s the Clinton team?!?

I’m reading Grover Norquist’s new book “Leave Us Alone” and he points out that California, Arizona and Nevada have all enacted constitutional amendments requiring a two-thirds vote of both houses of the legislature to raise taxes. Umm, I like that idea!!!

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Posted at 2:10pm on Mar. 17, 2008 A Tough Decision For FL-22 GOP Primary Voters

The case for picking the candidate that makes strategic sense in both the long and short term.

By Martin A. Knight

The 22nd Congressional District of the state of Florida is currently represented by a freshman Democrat, Ron Klein, the former Minority Leader of the Florida Senate, who defeated Republican Clay Shaw in 2006, a very senior 26 year veteran of the House.

This is still a marginal district, a purple seat with neither red nor blue having a distinct advantage, even with the benefit of incumbency that Ron Klein currently holds.

And it is one of those seats we need to start winning before we can have a hope of regaining a majority any time within the near future. 2006 saw the GOP lose probably around 90% of every toss-up race in the country, and to make matters more ... difficult, we just lost our former Speaker's nominally Republican seat thanks to our side's nomination of someone who, by all accounts, was a terrible candidate.

Like Dan would say, it's people ultimately that run for public office, not disembodied ideas, ideologies or Parties.

Read on below ...

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Posted at 8:07am on Mar. 10, 2008 IDK, My BFF Barack?

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

I'm sitting at home yesterday afternoon watching the Wings hang on against a pesky Nashville team when my phone blows up.  It's a text message from a friend. The sort of message that contains startling statements and life altering revelations. The sort of text that'll change the way one looks at the universe from that moment on into perpetuity.  

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Posted at 8:54am on Mar. 6, 2008 It's a horrible idea for Michigan which means it'll probably happen soon

By RightMichigan.com

Promoted by Jeff

I suppose it was only a matter of time before Michigan Democrats went ahead and intentionally lost their minds.  The high-pitched buzzing about scrapping legal election results because the Democrat National Committee didn't like the date they were gathered is growing more intense by the day with folks here in the State who previously defended Michigan now suddenly willing to bow down and kiss the ring on Howard Dean's middle finger.

Read on.

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Posted at 11:07am on Feb. 6, 2008 Counting California Delegates, Part 2

By Neil Stevens

McCain 164, Romney 6, as of 7:00am. I was way off, having expected Romney to take in the neighborhood of 40 delegates. This could shift, as a few close races are still counting, so Romney could take another 9-12 delegates if things go well for him in the right districts. In any case, it's a landslide, and nearly as good for McCain as winner take all.

Posted at 10:59am on Feb. 6, 2008 Counting California Delegates, Part 1

By Neil Stevens

Clinton 208, Obama 163, as of 6:30am, and there's no way this changes by more than a few delegates at this point.

What really seems to have helped Clinton are places where Edwards had a lot of absentee/early votes. Those higher Edwards figures shrunk the two way vote and stole Clinton extra delegates in 4 delegate districts.

By the way, their system is horribly named. You can win a string of 4-delegate districts by 10 points each and 'proportionately' tie the delegates, then lose a string of 5-delegate districts by 1 point each and fall way behind. It's like the electoral college, only random.

Posted at 8:34am on Jan. 16, 2008 True test of a candidate: Can you convince 55% of voters to support you if given no other choice?

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

The votes have all been counted and the dust is beginning to settle.  And as far as the left is concerned it's time to let the spin begin!  As you read your local paper today expect to find stories about an exultant Hillary Clinton, thrilled Hillary supporters and activists and her momentum heading into South Carolina and the casino-caucuses in Nevada.  Remember that the Clinton machine is one built upon an almost other-worldly (apologies to Dem hero Denny Kucinich) ability to spin (no, I don't mean like a UFO).  But as you read all of that don't jump too quickly over the reports of the final voting tallies.

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Posted at 8:32am on Jan. 15, 2008 Could Clinton win 80% of the vote without locking in a single delegate? YES!

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Today is the day... did you vote yet?  Then what are you sitting around reading a blog for?  Go.  Vote.  Forthwith.  Then come back.  I'll wait...

~twiddling thumbs~

~whistling~

~pacing room~

~looking at wrist pretending there's a watch there~

Back?  Awesome.  You may have been one of the first to vote today but you certainly won't be the last.  Early projections vary but all expect the primary election to draw around 1.5 million people.  That's about a 20% voter turnout when you do the math.  In 2000, the last time the State had a presidential primary we drew about 1.4 million so you can do the math on that one.  Of course back then there was only a GOP contest.  And as a group of lawmakers from metro-Detroit continue to point out in the press and via advertising and a grassroots ground game, there is very much a Democrat contest this year as well.

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Posted at 8:50am on Jan. 14, 2008 Michigan's favorite Democrat Bill Milliken makes his GOP "endorsement"

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

T-Minus 1 day and counting.  At this point just about every Republican in the State has made up his or her mind about who deserves that coveted vote at the ballot box tomorrow and the weekend was full of forecasts and predictions from the press, campaign stops and speeches about Michigan issues by Republicans and crickets chirping from the Democrats.  And all of that will continue today.

Mitt Romney, John McCain and Mike Huckabee will be out and about asking for your vote again today and the MSM will keep calling you to ask who you've decided to vote for.  Oh, right, and the Democrats will keep ignoring you, their own party members, undecided voters, young voters and struggling Michigan families because some fat-cat party bosses chomping on cigars in a cloak room on Capitol Hill told them to.  Sorry, sometimes I forget about them.  

Frankly, I'm starting to wonder if they really exist.  I mean, Hillary Clinton, OK.  I'll buy that.  I remember her as the First Lady back in the 90s but this Barack Obama cat?  I've been listening to the liberal media and as best as I can gather he's some sort of genetic experiment that came about when Al Gore invented a machine to mix the DNA of Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Ghandi, FDR and the Hindu god Vishnu.  Yes, he's THAT amazing.  

Read on . . .

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Posted at 9:38am on Jan. 10, 2008 GOP Candidates barnstorm Michigan (despite what the FREEP says) while "Uncommited" surges

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com

Remember a couple of days ago when the Ivory Tower told everyone in the State that Republican Presidential candidates just plain weren't going to be campaigning in Michigan following Tuesday's New Hampshire primary?  Yeah, about that... the Detroit News reports this morning on a full day of Michigan campaigning for several candidates yesterday:

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Posted at 11:08am on Jan. 9, 2008 And suddenly Michigan's Primary is a battleground... for the Democrats!

By RightMichigan.com

Promoted from blogs. - Moe Lane

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

There'll be endless analysis in the next week about what went right and what went wrong in New Hampshire and where each candidate stands heading into Michigan.  And it'll take some time for a conventional wisdom to form and when it does, if it's anything like what happened between Iowa and the Granite State it'll be all wrong.  But one thing has already become clear and it's maybe more surprising than any final result come next Tuesday.

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Posted at 9:05pm on Jan. 5, 2008 NH Debate Open Thread

By Mark I

The Republicans have been going at it for the past hour in New Hampshire on ABC. How's your guy doing? Discuss it here.

UPDATE: And it's over.

Quick reactions: Romney took a big hit. He looked desperate and flailing. McCain was a little subdued and fell to the temptation to kick Romney while he was down.

If only Fred Thompson had as much energy as he has gravitas. He needed to be a bit more aggressive.

Giuliani was characteristically solid. Huckabee managed to get through it without really saying much of anything. And then there was Paul.

My guess is that McCain and Giuliani go up, Romney and Huckabee go down, and Thompson stays the same.

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Posted at 9:24am on Nov. 27, 2007 MI House Dems move to disenfranchise millions on POTUS primary while foreclosures and gas tax hikes enter, stage LEFT

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Shocking news out of Lansing last night.  The House of Representatives was actually in session and worked late!  Technically.  Oh, sure, they stuck around late into the evening but the what and the why are as perplexing as ever.  The official reason for the late night was a round of voting on Michigan's January 15th joint primary bill.

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Posted at 9:11am on Nov. 15, 2007 Emergency court dates, 43,000 more MI jobs lost and a major fish-wrap encouraging blackmail

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

That's the official notice from the Michigan Court of Appeals agreeing to hold an emergency hearing on Michigan's January 15th joint primary and to hold it today.  Their decision was one of two items that came along late yesterday afternoon taking us one step away from the "no primary" precipice... unfortunately we're not out of danger just yet.  

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Posted at 9:16am on Nov. 8, 2007 MI Morning Update: Prez Primary in Question, Service Tax Repeal in the works

By saul anuzis

MORNING UPDATE:

Ecclesiastes 10:2 "The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left".

Judge rules that keeping voter “party id” list confidential is unconstitutional…an appeal is expected…primary should go on as planned. We are working on a bipartisan legislative solution to keep the primary on track; it looks like just about everyone is on board.

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