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Tag: Michigan State Senate

McMillin For Senate Announcement

By JGillman, Section Multimedia
Posted on Wed Jul 10, 2013 at 03:38:01 PM EST
Tags: Tom McMillin, Michigan State Senate, 13th District, Candidacy Announcement (all tags)

As any regular here would know, we have had the greatest respect for Representative McMillin from the beginning.

Good luck sir, and God bless!

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2014 Michigan State Senate Elections

By Conservative First, Section News
Posted on Sun Apr 21, 2013 at 03:29:10 AM EST
Tags: Michigan state senate, redistricting (all tags)

Cross-posted at The Western Right, Right Michigan, and Red Racing Horses.

All 38 seats in the Michigan Senate are up for election in 2014. Only seven senators are term-limited, the rest can seek reelection. Republicans currently have a 26-12 supermajority, and have controlled the senate for the past 30 years (since 1983).

Republican control of the state senate has prevented democrats from complete control of Michigan's government, and stopped a lot of bad things from being passed. More recently, the Republican supermajority has prevented some of Governor Snyder's more liberal plans from being implemented.

Fortunately for Republicans, the Michigan state senate is up only in midterms, which favor Republicans much more than presidential years. 2010 was very good to the Michigan GOP. Republicans picked up four state senate seats (and one earlier in a 2009 special election).

Republicans had complete control of redistricting this cycle. They crafted a very effective map. One democrat district was eliminated in Wayne County and replaced by a Republican one in west Michigan. Four other dem districts were made more dem. Most of the potentially vulnerable Republican seats were made more Republicans, though a couple got slightly worse due to the need to avoid splitting counties. The new map is actually cleaner than the old one, excluding the Detroit districts, which are ugly for VRA reasons.

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