... to buy your way into public office, well, we get the leadership we deserve.
The man has no experience. The man has no plan. The man won't take a position on any issue- and when he does and it causes him trouble, he flip-flops.
The man is a extreme right-wing, radical Norquist plurocrat that is a carbon copy of the leadership in Washington. Did the media ever want to point that out? One of these days, maybe?
The man is leading by 8 pts. now. The media is happily pointing that out this morning.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- A new poll released late Monday shows Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm slipping out of a near-tie with Republican challenger Dick DeVos to trail him by 8 percentage points.
Forty percent of likely voters said they would vote for Granholm, while 48 percent said they would vote for DeVos in a matchup between the two. The other 12 percent were undecided.
Here is the weird part. This poll was done for the Detroit News, a notorious right-leaning paper, in conjunction with three TV stations- one being WOOD, a notorious right-leaning station. I can't speak for the other two.
The new poll was conducted June 5 through Friday for The Detroit News and television stations WXYZ in Southfield, WILX in Lansing and WOOD in Grand Rapids. EPIC-MRA also conducted the May poll, which had DeVos at 46 percent and Granholm at 45 percent.
Both polls surveyed 600 likely voters statewide and had sampling error margins of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
I take it EPIC is now part of this media complilation? The April poll doesn't mention these stations or the Detroit News. Neither does May.
Whatever- both camps denied these results.
"We have been gaining," DeVos campaign spokesman John Truscott said Monday. "But there's no way we are in that much of a lead right now. ... (It's) much closer to a dead heat."
Mark Mehlman, a Democratic pollster working with the Granholm campaign, echoed those comments.
"This poll is not a realistic picture of the Michigan electorate at this moment," he told The Associated Press. "It's really not consistent with the polls we've seen."
The problem here is that public perception is being shaped. If this isn't consistent with the polls you've seen, you'd better get that information out there somehow before the herd starts to believe that all their neighbors love Dick.
Unless this is part of the plan- and he is peaking too early.
Anytime you're ready Jennifer. The MDP ad is nice and all, but I noticed that DeVos has ramped up the spending again. That "Return of the Whiny White People" ad is running all the time here....