{"id":1728963,"date":"2022-11-08T03:17:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T08:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1728963"},"modified":"2022-11-08T03:17:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T08:17:38","slug":"if-on-the-ground-energy-is-a-sign-a-midterm-upset-is-brewing-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-on-the-ground-energy-is-a-sign-a-midterm-upset-is-brewing-in-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"If On-The-Ground Energy Is A Sign, A Midterm Upset Is Brewing In Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fif-on-the-ground-energy-is-a-sign-a-midterm-upset-is-brewing-in-michigan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1728963&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The weekend before the 2016 election, my mother called and asked, \u201cWell? Who\u2019s gonna win? Trump or Hillary?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I said, \u201cDepends. If you think it\u2019s a conventional election where the electorate is mostly people who normally vote, then Hillary wins. But if you think Trump really has pulled off the impossible and gotten millions who don\u2019t normally vote out to vote, well, then Trump wins. But there\u2019s no way you\u2019re going to know until Tuesday. Pollsters will never see these new voters coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rest is history. The Trump team got to mid-afternoon Election Day and realized places like the Florida Panhandle, Western Pennsylvania, and rural Michigan were smashing their vote goals. Some counties had voted by noon at nearly twice the rate anticipated for the whole of Election Day. When Team Trump saw those numbers, they knew: The models were all wrong. They were going to win.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of that conversation driving around my home state of Michigan last week. I wanted to attend some events, see candidates up close, and get a feel for what the enthusiasm levels felt like with the governor\u2019s race coming up Tuesday between the incumbent Democrat Gretchen Whitmer and Republican Tudor Dixon. I also wanted to see Dixon on the stump for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Dixon is legit. She was engaged and on message, absolutely savaging Whitmer with a mix of earnestness and humor that\u2019s hard to pull off. If she somehow wins, she\u2019s an instant national rock star. But coming away from it, my biggest impression wasn\u2019t about the governor\u2019s race at all. It was about <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/28\/if-michiganders-re-elect-whitmer-and-pass-prop-3-kids-arent-safe-from-sexualization-at-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Proposal 3<\/a> and the effect it might be having on the larger campaign.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s Prop 3? It\u2019s the most radical<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/07\/michigans-prop-3-follows-the-abortion-on-demand-playbook-be-intentionally-vague-in-defining-health\/\"> pro-abortion <\/a>proposal on the ballot in America this year. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.micatholic.org\/advocacy\/focus\/2022\/protect-life-vote-no-on-proposal-3\/\">Michigan Catholic Conference<\/a>, \u201cIt would allow abortions to be performed by anyone, at any point in pregnancy, and for any reason. It would throw away state laws regulating quality, safety, and inspections for abortion clinics. It would remove parental consent requirements for teens seeking abortions, and also teens seeking gender reassignment surgeries.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The left has poured in millions from across America all year trying to get this thing passed. \u201cAs of Oct. 23, Reproductive Freedom for All, the coalition championing Proposal 3, had raised a total of $40.2 million, more than double the $16.9 million from the anti-abortion coalition Citizens to Support MI Women and Children,\u201d Bridge Michigan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgemi.com\/michigan-government\/proposal-3-abortion-measure-generates-57m-michigan-campaign-donations\">reports<\/a>. Conventional wisdom has been that it would pass for months.<\/p>\n<p>But something stood out: There were more \u201cNO ON PROP 3\u201d signs across Michigan than I\u2019ve ever seen for or against anything else in a Michigan campaign, including Trump \u201916 and \u201920. More importantly, the churches appeared to be activated in a way I\u2019ve never seen before. In Michigan politics, the Catholic Church is always very active in speaking out about life issues, but mainline Protestant evangelicals, less so. Well, they\u2019re off the sidelines now. <\/p>\n<p>Not only did we see churches with \u201cNo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anemic turnout in Detroit and energized, conservative rural areas over-performing \u2014 that&#8217;s the recipe for pulling an upset in Michigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1509,"featured_media":1728966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1728966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}