Detroit Free Press Poll: Ugly numbers for Dems in Governors race

[WI_DEM]

(Governor race in MI isn't looking good for Virg Bernero. Granholm's numbers are poor, Obama not as bad as one would think given unemployment in Michigan).

EPIC-MRA / Detroit Free Press
8/21-23/10; 600 likely voters, 4% margin of error
Mode: Live telephone interviews
(EPIC-MRA release)

Michigan

2010 Governor
51% Snyder (R), 29% Bernero (D) (chart)

Favorable / Unfavorable
Barack Obama: 44 / 49
Jennifer Granholm: 32 / 63
Virg Bernero: 22 / 27
Rick Snyder: 48 / 12

[still_one]

1. I guess that "working" with repukes didn't work out too well, nor did having

the insurance industry writing the healthcare reform, and the financial industry pretty much writing their ticket via lobbyists

[WI_DEM]

2. what does that have to do with the governor's race in MI?

[still_one]

3. I believe with the general media blasting of Democrats in general, day in and day out

that the misrepresentation that "Democrats" are responsible for the economic crisis, is hurting Democrats in all races

MI was traditionally a Democratic state, so was Ohio, etc. What happened?

The Economy and Jobs

That the good folks in MI, do not realize that much of their problems are due to republican policies baffles me

[WI_DEM]

5. The governor races are seeing lots of switches this year

Governors have borne the brunt of the recession and there approval ratings are bad in many instances. Look at Michigan. Gov. Granholm is much more unpopular in MI than Obama, so that is probably hurting the Dem nominee more than Obama. We may lose Dem governors in states like MI and OH (which is not a tradionally dem state, btw). But the GOP is in danger of losing governorships in CA, TX and FL-not traditional Dem states.

[still_one]

11. Florida I agree, but I am from California, and am concerned because whitman is trying to buy the

election

[dsc]

12. Ohio is no traditionaly Democratic state

Mr Republican Taft is from there for one thing. The GOP has held the governorship of Ohio for most of the last half of the 20th century. Rhodes 63-71, 75-83, Voinovich 91-99, Taft 99-07. From 99 to 06 we didn't have a single, solitary, non judical elected statewide Democrat. Yes, Clinton won Ohio twice but we only won one Senate election in the 1990's (Glenn in 1990 and he was a hero) and Clinton never won 50% of the vote.

[mrcheerful]

4. Really what is going on in Michigan has nothing to do with the President or his policies

it has to do with the high unemployment rate in the state and the fact that Granholm has been able to get very little passed through the states congress because of con blocking everything she wanted passed. Few are able to understand that Granholm has not been able to change much of Englers policies that caused most of Michigans woes, all they knew is what the con slanted media has told them about the state of the state.

[amandabeech]

13. Granholm hasn't been able to keep the auto factories going, either.

I grew up in Michigan, and I have families suffering there.

The people who really count in the state are the guys who run GM, Ford and Chrysler.

Ford has been sending manufacturing to Mexico. It's exactly what the Ford pres (whose name escapes me) did when he headed Boeing. Ford's most popular, and it is well designed and comes in a hybrid, is made in Mexico. I won't buy one.

GM has also been outsourcing.

Governors don't set trade policy. Clinton gave us NAFTA and got China into the WTO. Obama will not change a thing. Instead, he's trying to force a trade agreement with S. Korea down our throats that will send many more desperately needed manufacturing jobs and probably total industries to S. Korea.

Nonetheless, Granholm will be held responsible, as will many sitting governors, both Dem and Rep. The bums will be thrown out until people have jobs or the shooting starts. I'm beginning to think today that the shooting will start before the jobs come home.

[roxiejules]

14. The never-ending Kwame Kilpatrick scandal

probably hasn't helped the Democrats either.

http://www.freep.com/article/20100805/NEWS01/8050365/1001/News/Family-woes-end-Kilpatrick-dynasty

[Fire1]

6. If the voter turn out is no greater than the primaries then we're

screwed. If Snyder gets it, we're screwed. Guess I'll be leaving here alot sooner than anticipated.

[JNelson6563]

7. Yeah, start packin'.

Whatever you do don't get off the keyboard and get out here and help elect Virg.

Julie--sick of keyboard commandos who'd rather relocate to another state than lift a finger in an election

[Fire1]

9. Nope, if he doesn't get elected it won't be b/c

I didn't do my part.

[Michigan-Arizona]

10. I'm in Arizona but plan to help

We're in Arizona with a Michigan phone number so I plan to get with Virg's web site to make phone call's from here, have Vonage so I can make all the call's I want for free. I would love to see him win it, that man speaks for Michiganders!

[JNelson6563]

8. I hope things pick up a bit after the upcoming Dem convention

Sure would be great to have a Governor who is ready to kick some ass and take some names. Sadly Granholm wasn't that Governor. Virg could be but damn things need to get moving pretty damn soon.

Julie