Michigan’s Next Elections Could Determine The Direction Of National Politics

Michigan’s Next Elections Could Determine The Direction Of National Politics


Sen. Gary Peters’ retirement announcement last month further solidifies Michigan as the most important state in the country, at least politically, for the next two years.

Michigan has long been a swing state, not just federally but internally. Historically, the state’s political pendulum has swung at 8-year intervals. The 2010 swing gave Republicans full control over state government, highlighted by the passage of right-to-work, the stabilization of Michigan’s population after several decades of decline, and 600,000 new jobs.

The 2018 swing gave the state Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the nation’s most comprehensive COVID business shutdowns, and an “independent” redistricting commission. Under the commission’s legislative boundaries, later found by the courts to have been racially gerrymandered, Democrats won narrow legislative majorities in 2022 that repealed right-to-work, incinerated

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