Are Michigan Dems running for governor veering too far left?
Even as polls show former Michigan Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer the clear frontrunner in the Democratic primary for governor, it’s worth recalling what unfolded for Dems in the presidential race in 2016.
Whitmer, with 16 years legislative experience, a certified liberal record and widespread backing from labor, could be considered her party’s logical and best choice to contest the 2018 election.
That sounds a bit like Hillary Clinton, the establishment standard bearer who was steamrolling toward the Democratic nomination for president on the eve of Michigan’s March 8 primary. Polls had her leading Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by 20 points or more.
And then she lost the state, 50 percent to 48 percent, in what polling analysis site FiveThirtyEight called “among the greatest polling errors in primary history.”
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