Gretchen Whitmer's lead over Tudor Dixon grows to 16 percentage points in new poll

Source: Detroit Free Press

LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's lead over Republican Tudor Dixon ahead of the Nov. 8 election has grown to 16 percentage points — up from 11 points one month ago — according to a new Free Press poll.

Over the last month, Whitmer's favorability numbers have brightened while Dixon's have dimmed amid an onslaught of Democratic TV ads highlighting the candidates' positions on abortion rights.

If the election were held today, 55% of those surveyed said they would vote for Whitmer, a Democrat who is seeking a second four-year term. Dixon, a Norton Shores businesswoman and former conservative TV commentator with no prior political experience, would get 39% support. Only 6% said they were undecided, down from 11% in a poll conducted by the same firm in August.

The latest statewide poll by EPIC-MRA of Lansing was conducted between Sept. 15 and 19 for the Free Press and its statewide media partners. It sampled 600 likely November voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. Of those surveyed by live interviewers, 70% were contacted on their cellphones.

Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/09/22/whitmer-dixon-governor-michigan-poll-results/69508001007/

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GOP congressional candidate said US suffered from women's suffrage and praised organization trying t

Source: CNN

GOP congressional candidate said US suffered from women's suffrage and praised organization trying to repeal 19th Amendment

(CNN)A Michigan candidate for the US House backed by former President Donald Trump once railed against giving women the right to vote, arguing that America has "suffered" since women's suffrage.

John Gibbs, who defeated in the primary an incumbent Republican who had voted to impeach Trump, also made comments in the early 2000s praising an organization trying to repeal the 19th Amendment which also argued that women's suffrage had made the United States into a "totalitarian state."

As a student at Stanford University in the early 2000s, Gibbs founded a self-described "think tank" called the Society for the Critique of Feminism that argued women did not "posess (sic) the characteristics necessary to govern," and said men were smarter than women because they are more likely to "think logically about broad and abstract ideas in order to deduce a suitable conclusion, without relying upon emotional reasoning."

Hosted on Gibbs' personal page at Stanford in 2000 and 2001, the Society for the Critique of Feminism argued for a patriarchal society run by men, calling it "the best model for the continued success of a society."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/21/politics/john-gibbs-womens-suffrage-19th-amendment-kfile/index.html

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