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'''Michigan''' has 15 [[Electoral College]] votes in [[U.S.]] presidential elections, as of 2024. It was the twenty-sixth state to enter into the union, on Jan. 26, 1837. It borders four of the five [[Great Lakes]], all except Lake Ontario. Michigan comprises two parts connected by a bridge, the [[conservative]] Upper Peninsula (known as the U.P., with its residents known as "Yoopers") and the Lower Peninsula (which is by far the larger of the two). Michigan's capital is [[Lansing]], and its largest city is [[Detroit]].  Michigan is part of the [[Midwest]] that is shifting [[Republican]] in response to [[Leftist]] policies against traditional [[energy]], their push for government-subsidized, job-destroying [[electric vehicles]], and their war on Midwestern values.

'''Michigan''' has 15 [[Electoral College]] votes in [[U.S.]] presidential elections, as of 2024. It was the twenty-sixth state to enter into the union, on Jan. 26, 1837. It borders four of the five [[Great Lakes]], all except Lake Ontario. Michigan comprises two parts connected by a bridge, the [[conservative]] Upper Peninsula (known as the U.P., with its residents known as "Yoopers") and the Lower Peninsula (which is by far the larger of the two). Michigan's capital is [[Lansing]], and its largest city is [[Detroit]].  Michigan is part of the [[Midwest]] that is shifting [[Republican]] in response to [[Leftist]] policies against traditional [[energy]], their push for government-subsidized, job-destroying [[electric vehicles]], and their war on Midwestern values.

Residents are moving out of Michigan in droves, as nearly 40% of young adults in Michigan plan to move out within the next decade. Democrats have controlled Michigan’s government since 2022 and have ramped up [[cannabis]] sales with unlimited licensure and low pot taxes such that it has the highest per capita spending on marijuana, more than three times greater than California. Marijuana sales are expected to surpass $3 billion in Michigan in 2023 on a population of only 10 million people, averaging $300 per adult in annual spending on pot. In response, a population council was convened under Democrat leadership to try to stem the exodus, but it was so full of failed Democrat approaches that the lone Republican legislator on the council voted against it.

Residents are moving out of Michigan in droves, as nearly 40% of young adults in Michigan plan to move out within the next decade. [[Democrat]]s have controlled Michigan’s government since 2022 and have ramped up [[cannabis]] sales with unlimited licensure and low pot taxes such that it has the highest per capita spending on marijuana, more than three times greater than California. Marijuana sales are expected to surpass $3 billion in Michigan in 2023 on a population of only 10 million people, averaging $300 per adult in annual spending on pot. In response, a population council was convened under Democrat leadership to try to stem the exodus, but it was so full of failed Democrat approaches that the lone Republican legislator on the council voted against it.

Michigan has a large [[Arab]] [[American]] population (the largest percentage-wise in the [[U.S.]])).  Dearborn, Michigan, is majority Arab American, while Warren city and Sterling Heights (ranking #3 and #4 by population<ref>https://www.michigan-demographics.com/cities_by_population</ref>) have large Arab American populations; Hamtramck elected the first Muslim-majority city council in the U.S.<ref>https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/for-arab-americans-around-detroit-a-sense-of-betrayal-after-u-s-response-to-israel-hamas-war</ref> of 500,000 registered voters who provided the slim 150,000 margin of victory to [[Biden]] in 2020, but who turned against him in late 2023 due to Biden's support of carpet-bombing of the [[Gaza Strip]] that has killed more than 20,000 [[Palestinian]]s and stranded 9 out of 10 suffering from starvation and lack of water.<ref>https://www.aol.com/gaza-death-toll-surpasses-20-131613965.html</ref> Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), a [[Palestinian]] American in [[Congress]] who is so popular in Michigan that she was initially elected unopposed, accused [[Biden]] of supporting a Palestinian "genocide" and has indicated that Arab Americans will remember this in the [[2024 presidential election]].<ref>https://www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1213668804/arab-americans-michigan-voters-biden-israel-hamas-palestinians#:~:text=The%20state%20is%20home%20to,Middle%20East%20and%20North%20Africa.</ref>

Michigan has a large [[Arab]] [[American]] population (the largest percentage-wise in the [[U.S.]]).  Dearborn, Michigan, is majority Arab American, while Warren city and Sterling Heights (ranking #3 and #4 by population<ref>https://www.michigan-demographics.com/cities_by_population</ref>) have large Arab American populations; Hamtramck elected the first Muslim-majority city council in the U.S.<ref>https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/for-arab-americans-around-detroit-a-sense-of-betrayal-after-u-s-response-to-israel-hamas-war</ref> of 500,000 registered voters who provided the slim 150,000 margin of victory to [[Biden]] in 2020, but who turned against him in late 2023 due to Biden's support of carpet-bombing of the [[Gaza Strip]] that has killed more than 20,000 [[Palestinian]]s and stranded 9 out of 10 suffering from starvation and lack of water.<ref>https://www.aol.com/gaza-death-toll-surpasses-20-131613965.html</ref> Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), a [[Palestinian]] American in [[Congress]] who is so popular in Michigan that she was initially elected unopposed, accused [[Biden]] of supporting a Palestinian "genocide" and has indicated that Arab Americans will remember this in the [[2024 presidential election]].<ref>https://www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1213668804/arab-americans-michigan-voters-biden-israel-hamas-palestinians#:~:text=The%20state%20is%20home%20to,Middle%20East%20and%20North%20Africa.</ref>

Though traditionally controlled by [[Democrat]]s, with disastrous [[economic]] results, Michigan stunned the [[liberal media]] by voting for [[Donald Trump]] for president in 2016.  In the final days of the campaign Democrat leaders rushed to Michigan to try unsuccessfully to keep it from switching to the [[Republican]] side. With changes to open elections to fraud-prone mail-in balloting, Michigan elected a Democratic Governor in 2018 and then voted for Biden in 2020 by a reported 150,000 voters, many from [[ballot harvesting]] or by [[dropbox Dems|drop-box Dem]]s.  

Though traditionally controlled by [[Democrat]]s, with disastrous [[economic]] results, Michigan stunned the [[liberal media]] by voting for [[Donald Trump]] for president in 2016.  In the final days of the campaign Democrat leaders rushed to Michigan to try unsuccessfully to keep it from switching to the [[Republican]] side. With changes to open elections to fraud-prone mail-in balloting, Michigan elected a Democratic Governor in 2018 and then voted for Biden in 2020 by a reported 150,000 voters, many from [[ballot harvesting]] or by [[dropbox Dems|drop-box Dem]]s.