giving us fair legislative districts in this state, negating Republican control of redistricting for the first time in 40 years...
With fair competitive districts, Democrats win Michigan!
Despite a few sometimes strange results, this has been a Democratic state overall, dating back to the 1960s, and it still is!
The Democrats have held both of the state's senate seats since the 1970s, except for a one-term loss to a Republican in the 1994 "red wave", and sometimes loss of the governorship...
We have voted Democratic for President since 1992-- except for the 2016 Trump victory by a few thousand votes, which was an aberration which *might* have resulted from the Dem nominee taking the state for granted... in any case, i was greatly surprised and shamed that year-- even though I stood in line to vote for her for about 30 minutes....
Bernie Sanders won the Democratic primary here in 2016, by a hair, in an open primary allowing independents to vote in either primary, and I supported him then--- but I voted for our nominee in the general election, and with enthusiasm-- but I am a lifelong Democrat. It seemed to me that Trump was able to capture many of the 'angry independents'-- and the Democratic "all-white ticket" depressed the AA vote, which allowed Trump to win the popular vote here in 2016...
(Afterwards, I realized that there were very few AA voters standing in line to vote in my precinct, when there should have been many more... but I did not realize it at the time. However, it had been my position that the nominee should have found an African-American running mate-- especially right after President Obama--- I think I was quite right.)
Anyway, God Bless the Democratic victory, and our transformation back to a pro-union state!
And state Republicans, I eat your tears with pure joy! Cry some more!!
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