UM: Election Analysis

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Vincent Hutchings, a UM political science professor, is quoted in a Detroit News article about the implications of Tuesday’s general election, which gave Republicans control of the Michigan legislature and all top state government posts: “It isn’t that (Republicans’) message is so popular, it’s that the party in power, which is the Democrats, has not alleviated the distress many people are feeling. There is only one way to address that: It’s by voting them out.” [Source]