As we all know, one week before the storied bipartisan Mackinac Policy Conference in late May, former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced he was dropping his run as an independent candidate for governor in November. The question that has continued to circulate is why do it right before the Mackinac conference, which is sponsored by the Detroit Regional Chamber – which had endorsed Duggan early on. Despite rumors of a possible affair coming to light or a lucrative promised job

Just when it looked like Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s gubernatorial race for the Democratic candidacy would be smooth sailing, with Mike Duggan dropping out and Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson barely making a dent in the public’s radar, comes a brouhaha over a previous board position she held (2014-2018) with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which recently was indicted by the an Alabama federal grand jury on 11 counts, including conspiracy to commit money l

With the August 4 primary just a little over a month away and absentee voter ballots in the mail in late June, this month’s Magic 8 Ball predictions, or political polls, appear to be tightening in the senate and governor’s races. The viciously-contentious three-way race for the Democratic standard bearer for U.S. Senate, to replace retiring Senator Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield Township), will be a battle all the way to the ballot box. According to an early June poll by the Leagu

Despite one top Republican stating, “No one can beat Jocelyn (Benson) right now,” Republican candidates are certainly determined to go for broke doing just that. According to a recent poll from the Mitchell Research, two-term Macomb County Congressman John James is in a statistical tie with former Attorney General Mike Cox, with James at 28 percent to Cox’s 27 percent, despite Cox noting that his campaign has spent “approximately $2.6 million this cycle to John James’ $4.4 mi

As long as everyone continues to look at an array of shifting political polls, some still with 13-33 percent undecided participants just weeks out from the start of actual voting, we went back to the prediction markets, using the Polymarket online platform like we did on April 20 and May 17 In the race for the U.S. Senate seat, on April 20 Abdul El-Sayed was pulling 51 percent and in May pulled 56 percent. On June 16 he had moved up to 72 percent. Haley Stevens remained in m

Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed – perhaps in a rabid effort for more attention, or because of his true sentiments – has been fanning the flames of antisemitism, stating at an event in Pontiac in late May that he struggles with whether “he believes Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state,” according to Jewish Insider. On June 10, federal prosecutors indicted eight anti-Israel activists with University of Michigan affiliations for their roles in a set of coordi