I-75 corridor from Detroit north to Saginaw is going to vote for the D’s no matter what gets said or promised.

Michigan is doomed.

swami on August 5, 2008 at 9:37 AM

I live in the corridor and you are likely right about the voting patterns. The state as a whole could go McCain. It is a key state this election. The part of Michigan that would reject Obama is fairly conservative. Romney took the Michigan primary

With 99% of returns in, Romney had 39% of the vote, John McCain 30%, and Mike Huckabee 16%. Ron Paul finished a distant fourth, but he had nearly as many votes as Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani combined

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Note the weak showing of Fred and Giuliani. If you want Michigan take Romney as VP. Other choices may be as conservative, but the Romney brand name is the only trusted one here. Michigan is in bad shape and people will not take chances. During the primaries, McCain made an off the cuff remark that jobs overseas are not coming back. Romney immediately responded with confidence that of course they can come back. Romney makes McCain work here.

BTW the liberal corridor is one of the most gas dependent areas you can find. The auto dependent life style was perfected here, from distant shopping malls, to highway job commutes, it is hard to get the food home without a car

Michigan is doomed.

swami on August 5, 2008 at 9:37 AM

Ummm I think you mean it has BEEN doomed.

Largest population on welfare in the Nation. yeah that is something to be proud of.

Those people who actually own businesses in that State I feel sorry for. Taxing them into oblivion via their legislature, the Gov and now Obama… think about it.

Anyone want to buy so cheap yet heavily taxed land?!

If we aren’t facing a supply crisis, as the Democrats insist by saying we can’t drill our way out of this, why release oil from the SPR?

That’s the money quote, Ed, you nailed it.

I am also reminded of Fred Thompson’s description of Obama as “George McGovern without the experience.”

Read on to see how well this flim flam man’s scheme worked out for the state of Illinois…

Buy Danish on August 5, 2008 at 10:23 AM

Great pickup. The worthless and dying Chicago papers are incapable of professional journalism with respect to Obama, and for that matter Jones.

As much as I appreciated the stimulus cheque, the $1000 cheque as proposed by Obama is just as asinine.

[mjk on August 5, 2008 at 10:45 AM]

What makes you think you’d be getting a $1,000 energy rebate check? Those checks will only be for people in need, and odds are you either won’t be below the threshold or will at least be on the sliding scale for practically nothing.

I know! Let’s nationalize the oil companies!

Seixon on August 5, 2008 at 9:52 AM

Shhhh! He’s saving that for after he’s elected!

I’m sorry, you know what would help my pocket book? If oil, gas, and food was cheaper, not some random cheque from the government. How about some more oil in the marketplace that is oh, say drilled in America to decrease the price of oil? Then would decrease the price of gas and food.

pushing a windfall tax on Big Oil’s profits to fund the $1,000 rebate checks.

Would this be a rebate to those who actually have a vehicle registered as ownership .. or .. just a hand out to everybody who filed a tax return regardless of whether or not that actually paid any taxes?

Obama’s not happy just redistributing my taxes to those who didn’t pay any now he wants to redistribute my mutual fund.

A watershed moment in Illinois’s fiscal decline came in 2002, when crashing receipts and Democratic reluctance to enact spending cuts forced Republican governor George Ryan to call a special legislative session. While Ryan railed at legislators for refusing to rein in an out-of-control budget, the Chicago Tribune spoke ominously of an “all-consuming state budget crisis.” Unwilling to cut back on social welfare spending, Obama’s chief partner and political mentor, senate Democratic leader Emil Jones, came up with the idea of borrowing against the proceeds of a windfall tobacco lawsuit settlement due to the state.

Read on to see how well this flim flam man’s scheme worked out for the state of Illinois…

Step #2; Oil companies raise prices the equivalent of $1,000 for each American.

–John Tyler, in his 1770 book, “Cycle of Democracy”

Obama’s proposal shows he recognizes the impact of supply on prices

What a presidential grasp of the obvious he has! This is akin to saying he recognizes that the sun rises in the east. The scary part is that he only began to recognize it when Bush lifted the exec drilling order and crude prices dropped.

Obama’s $1000 check is blatant bribery. Its a vote buying conspiricy. He is literaly promising $1000 to every family if he is elected, how is that NOT bribery or vote buying?

Its one thing to say “I’ll lower taxes and an average guy should get…”… but this is giving a concrete set amount in the form of a check…

Michigan is doomed.

This is one dangerous, sophomoric windbag.

For all their foibles…I think most of Michigan understands a con game when they see one. Most of Michigan. Not all. But, enough, one hopes, to reject this hope and change fantasy, er, promise. I think Obama in Lansing pretty much sealed it. I’m glad the Detroit News pointed this out.