Political 'revolt' brews in Detroit's suburbs
With less than a week until Election Day, there are signs of Republicans unplugging their hopes of Schuette becoming governor and focusing on preserving legislative majorities and holding onto a 9-5 majority of the state's congressional seats.
Schuette's campaign on Tuesday pulled all of its advertising in markets outside of Detroit. Polls commissioned by The Detroit News and WDIV (Channel 4) and Emerson College showed Whitmer favored by respondents by 12 points and 11 points over Schuette, respectively.
And Republican groups have made spending moves on advertising that insiders say are more focused on preventing a blowout in the governor's race that could wipe out down-ballot Republicans from the Legislature to county commissions. They've turned to U.S. Senate candidate John James and attorney general hopeful Tom Leonard to act as electoral firewalls for those other races.
Suddenly, control of the Michigan Senate seems in play, despite the GOP's commanding 27-11 supermajority and favorable district boundaries Republicans have drawn themselves over the last three decades during a 34-year run of continuous GOP rule.
Both the Senate Republican and Democratic campaign committees have taken out $500,000 loans in the past five days to pour more money into competitive races.
The ground is shifting on Republicans in Detroit's suburbs, with three Senate seats in Oakland County and one each in Macomb and western Wayne County in play.
College-educated women in Oakland County "appear to be abandoning the Republican Party," said pollster Richard Czuba of the Lansing-based polling firm Glengariff Group Inc.
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