{"id":4127,"date":"2024-05-10T08:25:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T12:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4127"},"modified":"2024-05-10T08:25:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T12:25:07","slug":"is-michigan-even-a-swing-state-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4127","title":{"rendered":"Is Michigan Even a Swing State Anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/JPA444.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"414\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/JPA444.jpg\" alt=\"Is Michigan Even a Swing State Anymore?\" class=\"wp-image-4128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/JPA444.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/JPA444-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In truth, I don&#8217;t believe that Michigan journalists are conspiring to keep Michigan a swing state. Like all folks in media these days, simply trying to survive is more than a full-time job. So I&#8217;m sure they appreciate presidential candidates coming to our state to share their visions (or their bile) \u2014 it makes for news that directly pertains to their readers\/viewers. But the Michigan media certainly doesn&#8217;t have the capacity to orchestrate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, we can thank the Electoral College for all this. Our Founding Fathers may have had the best of intentions, but there was so much that they couldn&#8217;t have anticipated, especially the two-party system. That part wasn&#8217;t at all by design but has become the de facto standard for most of our history. As a consequence, if one party dominates state politics, all the votes for that state predictably go to the candidate of that party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But however you feel about the Electoral College, I think we all can agree that it makes certain states \u2014 so-called swing states or battleground states \u2014 more relevant than others. Michigan is one of them, and, on the whole, that&#8217;s at least better than not being relevant. Or to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, &#8220;There is only one thing in politics worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In truth, I don&#8217;t believe that Michigan journalists are conspiring to keep Michigan a swing state. Like all folks in media these days, simply trying to survive is more than a full-time job. So I&#8217;m sure they appreciate presidential candidates coming to our state to share their visions (or their bile) \u2014 it makes for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4129,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions\/4129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}