Blog tagged as Legislature

Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D-Royal Oak)'s two PACs raised a combined $600,000 this period, part of $2.35 million she announced raising to help “flip the Senate.”

After what was described as a “groundswell of community support,” Jackson Democrat Maurice Imhoff has reconsidered the suspension of his campaign and decided to reengage.

The pieces remaining on the state House chess board are slowly declining.

If the Senate maps drawn last year had been in place in 2018, the year Gov. Gretchen Whitmer won her first term by 9.56 percentage points, the Republicans still would have won 20 seats, presuming that every voter continued to vote for a Republican or Democratic candidate.

Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum says she's projecting only one in 10 election officials will use Michigan's reformed law allowing them to begin preprocessing absentee ballots the Sunday and Monday before Election Day.