LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — Two polls last week suggested that the statewide races in Michigan were tightening up, but with the election exactly a week away, two new polls show that last week’s polls may have been wrong.
The surveys conducted by the Glengariff Group and by Emerson University have both Gretchen Whitmer and Debbie Stabenow up by double digits, which is where they had been in most polls.
Pollster Richard Czuba of the Glengariff Group says the results confirm what they knew.
Both surveys also show that only about 4% of voters have yet to make up their minds. —-
Whitmer says she has no plans to coast to victory, she is scheduled to kick off her “Fix the damn Roads” bus tour today in Lansing, and says she plans to keep the pedal down all the way through next Tuesday.
Never mind what the polls are saying, those numbers are meaningless unless everyone who claims they plan to vote…actually does.
The Chair of Michigan’s Democratic Party, Brandon Dillon says at this point turnout is their primary focus, getting voters to polling Places.
With so few undecideds left, victory will depend on turnout. For instance, Proposal 1, the marijuana initiative does well in polls but passage may depend on whether millennials defy their own sorry history and vote.
Older voters, who are leaning toward a no vote on pot, are much more likely to vote. In fact many of them have already voted by absentee ballot.
