51 Candidates Who Filed May 11 for Congress, state Senate, and state House of Representatives Withdrew from Races Only Three Days Later --- and that Doesn't Include Judicial Aspirants!

Democrats Show 12% Drop From a Year Ago; Slightly More People  Say They Identify with GOP (30%) Than Dems (27%), But Most Voters Describe Themselves as Independents (42%)...

Big Question: Was His Exit Voluntary, or Was He Pushed? Dick and Betsy DeVos Immediately Endorse 29-year-old state Rep. Justin Amash (R-Grand Rapids)

It's Not too Late to Get in the Race --- Remember, Geoffrey Fieger Didn't Announce He was Running in 1998 Till Spring

Mark Schauer (D-MI 7) and Gary Peters (D-MI 9) Appear to Have Toed the Line for U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi --- But is that What Their Constituents Want From Them? IMP issue of Feb. 8th Has Some Answers ...

Governor Breaks Her Annual Speech to the Legislature into Three Sections --- Get the Bad News Out of the Way the Previous Week and Consign the Grim Budget Numbers to February 11th --- then Concentrate on Delivering an Upbeat Talk in your SoS, Centered on a Recitation of Your Accomplishments, Few Though They May Be ...

Republican Scott Brown Pulls Off Upset in Massachusetts, Health Care Reform Imperiled, Supreme Court Unleashes Corporate Campaign Juggernaut More Likely to Help GOP, Liberal Air America Talk Radio Declares Bankruptcy & Goes Off Air, Gretchen Whitmer Folds Tent on Attorney General Race, & No Plausible Democratic Candidate for Governor Yet!

Republican Contest Appears Frozen in Place Over Past Six Months; Dem Race Now Appears to be between a Flawed Potential Giant and Up to a Half-Dozen Pygmies (While Others Weigh Entering the Fray) ...

Alma Wheeler Smith (D-S. Lyon), Coleman A. Young, II (D-Detroit), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) Share Top Billing as "Most Liberal' Based on 36 Key Roll Calls --- see Dec. 28th issue of Inside Michigan Politics

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Flint's Mayor Don Williamson Declared a Year Ago He Was Running for Governor, but then was forced to resign just before a scheduled recall election last February. Could Bernero be next? Their records are similar ...

She Tells Television's "Off the Record" Panel that He Sold Out House Democrats on the FY 2010 Budget and that She Wouldn't Run on the Same Ticket with him for Governor Next Year

Pugh says it's a "new day" in Detroit with new mayor Dave Bing and a majority of freshmen on incoming Motown city council

Governor's Inside Game, Never Strong, Deteriorates Even More as Legislators Tune Her Out

Senate Has Already Rejected EO, House May be Next with 15 Democrats Poised to Overturn It along with All 43 Republicans

IMP/PPC automated surveys also relatively accurate in predicting order of finish in Detroit city council race, except that Charles Pugh managed to withstand negative publicity about his personal finances better than seemed to be the case a week before the Nov. 3 Vote

Republican Nofs's Win in a district that had been Democratic expands GOP lead in Senate to 22-16

Governor Grudgingly Signs Higher Education Bill without Vetoing Line Items for Cooperative Extension Service and Agriculture Experimental Stations

Democrats Made Gains in 2008, but more than Two-Thirds of Township Supervisors, Clerks, Treasurers and Trustees Indentify with GOP

But Bernero Stopped Removal of Snow from Bridge Over Grand River, Forcing Pedestrians to Walk in Heavy Traffic on Waverly Road

Incumbent Mayor Hanging onto Dwindling Lead with a Week Left Before Nov. 3 Election

Embattled Mayor  shouts at host Rob South: "If you want to make some accusation, go ahead! ... What are you talking about?!"

Granholm Demands "Revenue Enhancements" in Anticipation of FY 2010 Budget Shortfall That is Sure to Come; She's Betting that Legislature's Knees Will Buckle

He hopes it will help him outflank Republican nominee for open state Senate seat when they square off next year

Incumbent Mayor Who Champions Himself as World-Class Debater Chickens Out of TV Match with Challenger Carol Wood Because of Fears that the Truth About His 527 Will Be Exposed

Granholm Enfuriates Senate Majority Leader Bishop; They're Eyeball-to-Eyeball --- Who will Blink First?

Her Executive Order Weakens state Agriculture Commission, May Lead to Legislature Overturning Her Action

Current Issue of Inside Michigan Politics Gives Complete District-by-District Rundown of What Will Happen

If Republican Nominee Mike Nofs wins, it could Enable GOP to hold onto Control of the Michigan Senate for the Next Five Years

Only Three Sitting Councilmembers May Survive Nov. 3 Voting

Latest IMP/Grebner Robo-Call Poll Shows Incumbents Watson & Tinsley-Talabi in Trouble

But Most Michiganders Claim They Won't Leave State No Matter How Bleak the Economy

Voters aren't that worried about threat posed to environment by drilling for oil on public lands

"Concealed Carry" law shouldn't be altered to allow weapons where large numbers of students are located

IMP/MRG Poll Finds Lieutenant Governor Increases His Poll Numbers Over Democratic Opponents Since Last Spring

IMP/MRG Poll Finds Him Losing to All Top-Tier Republican Candidates, Beating Only Snyder (By 8 points, with a Quarter of the Electorate Undecided)

New IMP/MRG Poll Says He Would Lose, But He might Help John Cherry

Bouchard trails in Third Place, George & Snyder Bring Up the Rear

Higher academia is still abuzz over meddling by Gov. Jennifer Granholm and influential Democratic law-makers in a union election at Central Michigan University this past spring.

In the most recent panel of robo-calls taken Sept. 10, list broker Mark Grebner of
East Lansing-based Practical Political Consulting found that a
shake-up is in the offing, with a fierce fight for the final four council seats