If Michigan is tied, then John McCain will be President

Published by Soren Dayton on

Jonathan Martin gets a new Michigan poll via the Detroit News:

New poll numbers out from the Detroit News have the Michigan race between Obama and McCain very competitive with a chunk of voters still on the sidelines.

Obama is up 43-41, but 12% of voters said they’re undecided.

My gut is that if undecideds are that high, John McCain is President.  Michigan is a lot of electoral votes and we saw throughout the primaries that Obama never really closed well. The undecideds always broke hard against him.

Obviously, it is far too early to be making statements like this,  but this and this New Hampshire poll suggest that McCain is very much in this.

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Soren Dayton is an advocacy professional in Washington, DC who has worked in policy, politics, and in human rights, including in India. Soren grew up in Chicago.

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