Michigan residents -- Do you think Dick Devos is trying to buy his way into office OR is he really quailified?
956700
He has spent 10 million so far and has more to spend. He is a good man but it seems to me Granholm is doing a good job. The Federal policies has hurt her much more than her policies. I believe she deserves another term.
758248
He's allowed the electorate to send "Macaca" Allen on his way to retirement, while helping to further douse any presidential aspirations he may have had.\n\nThat's quite a bit.
908935
I saw a poll that had him down by 4 so if this is true maybe he could bull off a squecker. Of course then all the libs would say he stole the election.
945751
He is a consumate politician and is doing what he has to do.\nRummys resignation, one he refused to accept untill now was a bone he tossed to them hoping it would quiet the voices that want impeachment hearings.\nHe is saying what he thinks we want to hear and what his advisors tell him he must.
850694
I voted for Dick because Granholm has done nothing, absolutely nothing, to bring new jobs.  Our unemployment rate is around 7 percent, the highest in the US and as a college student who will graduate in 3 years, that scares me. \n\nI've posted this in another question, but I pray that Granholm has finally gotten a rude awakening from all of this and will actually do something to help our state.\n\nAnd Devos being rich, honey, Granholm lives in one of the wealthiest subdivisions here in Michigan.  Kwame Kilpatrick is filthy rich and instead of improving Detroit, he spends city money on SUV's and parties and you clowns still voted for him!  \n\nIf you voted against Devos solely because he's rich, I pity you.  Focus on what matters here in Michigan like the unemployment rate and the schools not someone's wealth and how they did in a debate.
215706
Absolutely. He's conned everybody that's voted for him by switching parties, and made a farce of everybody that payed for his liberal campaign.\n\nedit: Yes, you vote for a person, but he was voted under the impression that he would pursue the liberal platform. It's total BS for him to switch parties.
1162812
Obrador says he wont let beans etc come in under the NAFTA deadline.  Our government is saying it must occur as scheduled.  Personally, I think NAFTA was never looked at as having a potential impact on immigration, and I think that dialog would be healthy.  I'm not even sure which side I'd be on.\n\nHowever, big business here wants both cheap labor AND free trade, and would be more comfortable with Fox's party.  Much as I hate the thought, they may well come out the winners over here, which would put Mexico in a position of maybe getting significantly loosened immigration (legally) for poor immigrants.  I don't know if they would be comfortable horse trading with Obrador.  Big business (right or wrong) has a suspicion that those on the left don't consider themselves bound by agreements once they get what they want.\n\nThis is just speculation.  I'd rather not have Obrador because he seems volatile.  I don't vote there, however.\n\nBy the way, I found an article that might interest you.  I don't know if I agree with its conclusion, but here you go: http://www.whittierdailynews.com/opinions/ci_3991732
11230
simply put ... no. because of the fact that he is not an american citizen by birth, he would have to get the congress to change the law.. which doesnt seem very plausible considering the ratings he is getting as mayor.
763376
I'm voting for him.  That will be a vote switched from Feinstein for whom I voted last time.  \n\nWill he win?   I don't know.\n\nShould he win?  \n\nAbsolutely.  California's schools are being wiped out, along with its middle class.\n\nWe need to send a message that if our Congressmen vote against what they know the majority wants, they will lose their jobs.  Right now they hope it isn't a high enough priority with us to govern our votes.  I don't agree with Mountjoy on everything, but given that politics is about compromise, I'd rather have him on capital hill than Diane Feinstein.
609034
I think he's viable for that reason alone... people are not responding well to the partisan views of the current Republican leadership... I think if you go with someone like a Frist, it's a sinking boat, as things stand now...
1026337
No.  I think he's better serving as the Senate Democratic Leader.  He can do great work there, and hey, he's already in the Senate.  Why move him?\n\nThere are other people who might be better & more qualified to run for President.  However, if he did win the Democratic nomination, then I would vote for him.
127168
The short answer is yes.  This is someone who wants to put more food on the American people and make the pie higher.\nHe is a monkey who knows how to get us into wars, loot the treasury, give tax breaks to his rich friends, and send our jobs over seas.  He is the Katrina president.  He is a president who reads books about pet goats while we are under attack and appoints cronies to be nominated to the Supreme Court.  \nI liked his Social Security stock market scam too. \nAs a weasel, he has the animal cunning of a con artist, but \nalmost anybody responding to this question could run the table on him intellectually.
1029883
maybe Jim is just real good at blowing smoke up my @ss\n\nJim...u are my new hero\n\nplease scan your palm and email it to me so i can give you a reading...it'll tell me if you are a prophet or not\n\n(do you think God is a democrat?)
851267
Although he may allegedly be qualified, the real question is wether or not he's capable.\n\nIf he does what he did in NY there is no chance of it.
323119
NO! I think he is a greedy man.  He looks like the devil on t.v. Get him out of office,but He needs to finish the mess he started though. Democrat all the way!
931105
Humble pie?  He doesn't know what that is.  He is a megalomaniac and a psycho.  He is oblivious to good sense and can't read his public.  I don't know how this man made it to president in the first place.  It just goes to prove that gullible America will elect anyone at all.
75930
I suspect he will run for the nomination (winning is another thing.)  He has been out there making a name for himself outside of politics, writing and publicizng books for a general audience, talking on the Today show about weight loss, and he is chairman of the National education Association and the National Governor's Conference, both of which position him to forge alliences and demonstrate national leadership.  The mian political reason to do any of this is to set the ground for a Presidential run -- they don't help him in his home state as much as other things he could do which don't take him away.  He cannot run again for governor because of term limits.  And he is from a town called Hope, which gives hope to Presidential candidates (like Bill Clinton.)\n\nI have no doubt he is seriously considering running, and suspect he will actually try.\n\nPS -- it is Huckabee.