Democratic Primary

State Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, an East Lansing Democrat, has announced she is withdrawing from the Democratic primary to be nominated as the party’s attorney general candidate in November.
In a three paragraph statement issued by her campaign shortly after 11 a.m. Wednesday, Whitmer said she was withdrawing from the race to be with her two [...]

With the hoopla surrounding Lansing Mayor Virgil Bernero’s announcement late last month that he was considering a run for the state’s highest office, very little attention has been paid to the fact that the White House and the Democratic National Committee have been involved in recruiting the mayor.

LANSING — The Democratic mayor of Michigan’s capital city has confirmed he is “seriously considering” a run for the state’s top job. His reasoning?

Virgil Bernero said in an interview with Michigan Messenger on Monday that since news broke this weekend that he had been approached by the Obama administration to run for governor, but had declined, he had received phone calls and emails from people all over the state encouraging him to run.

Former Senator John Edwards suffered another blow to his campaign tonight, coming in third behind Senators Obama and Clinton in the South Carolina Democratic primary. In 2004, Edwards won the South Carolina Democratic primary winning with 45 percent of the vote. Tonight, Edwards came in third, securing 19 percent of the vote. In a short [...]

Michigan’s January 15 presidential primary will be the first time since 1992 that Michigan voters will have to indicate a party preference in order to receive a ballot and vote.  Experts differ in how they expect this to affect voter behavior. Some advocates think it is simply a bad idea.
Voter advocates are concerned about privacy [...]