The article goes on to say Palin has energized the ticket with her small town flavor, something many white and blue collar folks in this state can identify with.

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Hello from Michigan..


No doubt Palin has energized the ticket here in Michigan but there are a lot of pizzed off and laid off workers here who do not trust anyone on the GOP ticket.Not all blue collar workers are that gullible,they place the blame squarely on the GOP from 2000-2006. Some may take a chance on the McSame tickett but others refuse to be fooled again! I predict a close election in MI but the Obama/Biden ticket will prevail.

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"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle" Alexis de Tocqueville

Thanks. I was looking forward to your view of this.
BTW, How's your hammer hangin'? (Southern expression for "How's everything going?")

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I thought it was a Viking expression and properly stated as 'How hangeth thou hammer?'

To which of course the only response is 'a little bit to the right'.

Anyhow, people in Michigan who want to blame the government for their woes shouldn't be allowed to vote.

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Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.-- Mark Twain

Detroit, MI may be the only major city in the US who's level of corruption approaches that of Chicago.

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

God is a conservative -

Ecclesiastes 10:2--"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."

I'm not so sure...

I mean...Detroit hasn't had a mayor plead guilty in weeks!...

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"You get the respect that you give" - cnredd

There is corruption in a lot of places. It's still an important state in this election. Almost every state is this go round.

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Let me rephrase ...

People in Michigan should blame their government for part of their issues, but not really the people they sent to Washington.

They have voted in local politicians for so long that promised to save their union jobs while all along the rest of the world was no longer willing to pay a guy $40 an hour to push a button and watch a machine paint a car. I'm surprised there are any US automakers left there...

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Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.-- Mark Twain

With both In-laws requiring care,one for AZ and the other for severe depression due to loosing his wife to AZ..life has been hectic!!! My wife and I have moved in with dad to care for him since his release from The Nest where Nurse Ratchett got all the meds wrong! We brought another Dr in on the project,he changed almost all of the meds and the improvement has been "dramatic"!

I'm still stuck on dial up for another week and that's why my posts have been short and my stay here on PW limited. We are still using a shared line so I can't stay on longer than a half hour at a time..

Thanks for asking,life have been traumatic for all of us but this too shall pass..

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"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle" Alexis de Tocqueville

Exactly...we were once a powerhouse..a "donor" state! We contributed far more to "other" states than we brought in. The auto industry is like a giant ship with a tiny rudder,it takes forever for navigation to answer the helm.I have not voted for a Michigan "incumbent" for years regardless of party affiliation.

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"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle" Alexis de Tocqueville