The polls for the marquee races for August’s primary are coming in fast and furious, often with conflicting determinations on who could prevail to be the party’s candidate heading into the November general election for senate and governor. Twiddling the numbers is especially notable amongst the three Democrats fighting to be the standard bearer to replace retiring U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield Township). Depending on the day and the poll, any of the three running – C

Ten weeks out from absentee ballots being released, and prognosticators bemoan the high numbers – anywhere from 15 percent up to as much as 36 percent – of undecided voters in political polls for the more competitive races. Add to the mix, the prediction markets for those who would wager actual dollars on events like who would win a primary race this August and the general election come November. Prediction market betting has been around for decades but it took a federal cou

As the three Democratic Senate candidates battle it out to be the standard bearer moving past the primary, the two female candidates, Haley Stevens and Mallory McMorrow, are particularly vicious towards each other. They attack one another over issues large, and small, while Abdul El-Sayed, who has increasingly been facing calls of antisemitism and investigations into his background and truthfulness over his continual labeling of himself as a physician, when he never completed

Haley Stevens got a minor amount of negative publicity but also considerable help from outside money sources after one of her primary opponents, state Senator Mallory McMorrow, unleashed criticism over the Congresswoman’s support for a 2025 resolution thanking law enforcement and ICE. The Center for Democratic Priorities, a mystery group of sorts that was just recently formed, immediately pledged and began spending $5.3 million in the Detroit and other markets across the sta

With all of the polling ups and downs and tits-for-tat, what will really get voters motivated for a candidate? Each of the candidates are racking up endorsements, which we have noted can influence primary voters as much as 13-16 percent. Abdul El-Sayed has long been endorsed, and campaigned with, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Mallory McMorrow recently received the endorsement of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, and recently announced a slew of former Macomb and St. C

While Dem gubernatorial candidate and current Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has her party’s nomination basically all sewn up, the Republicans are currently eating themselves alive. Witness the back and forth vitriol between leading Republican candidates Congressman John James and businessman Perry Johnson. While most polls acknowledge James is in the lead despite his lackadaisical campaign – rarely showing up with other candidates or at Republican events, fundraising stal

It’s the way of the world. We all want to help our kids start out in their careers. For Michael Bouchard Jr., that parental assist may just take him all the way from Birmingham, where he grew up and attended Brother Rice High School, to the military, and now to Congress, where he is running for the 10th District as a Republican to replace the ever-restless John James. According to reports, his recent campaign finance report indicates that more than half of the donations to hi

Running for office is an expensive endeavor and candidates are forced to seek funding from all sorts of backers. But some fundraising is just plain wrong in today’s climate, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have rounded up, deported and even killed immigrants and protesters. According to The Detroit News , three of the four candidates for the open U.S. Senate seat – Republican Mike Rogers and Democrats Mallory McMorrow and Haley Stevens –received camp

Regardless of who the Democratic Senate candidate ends up being – the slugfests comes to a head in the August 4 primary election – Republicans recognize that Michigan is a state they want to flip if they intend to keep the Senate. To that end, the Senate Leadership Fund, the top Senate GOP super PAC, has already announced they intend to spend an eye-popping $342 million in battleground states this fall – with Michigan, and Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers , earmarked f

The race to be the Democratic Senate candidate heading into November is this close , and which of the three candidates – Oakland County Congresswoman Haley Stevens, Royal Oak state Senator Mallory McMorrow or former Wayne County health chief Abdul El-Sayed – is at the top of the polls depends on which poll is being interpreted. According to a recent poll by Global Strategy Group for the McMorrow campaign in late March, McMorrow now leads, 30 percent over El-Sayed at 25 perc