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...Michigan, it's Ward Connerly and Jennifer Gratz versus the state's entire political establishment - and Gratz and Connerly may actually win. Connerly, an African-American businessman famous for being the force behind affirmative action bans that passed in California and Washington in the late 1990s, is now pushing his favorite cause in Michigan. A group he helped found called the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative is backing an initiative on the state's ballot in November that would ban both racial and gender preferences in state government hiring and college admissions. Gratz, who after being denied admission to the University...
...Fight Over Affirmative Action in Michigan The man behind the California racial preference ban is back at it again, this time in Michigan, where his ballot initiative could prevail over a strong, organized opposition
...even that powerful opposition may not be enough: polls show Michigan voters closely divided over the issue, with 41% supporting the ban, 44% opposing, and about 15% still undecided. The opposition to the measure got off to a sluggish start. Affirmative action proponents intended to raise more than $5 million to saturate the airwaves against Connerly's group, which only has about $2 million, but have only collected about $3 million thus far. "Nobody pays attention until the last month," said Debbie Dingell, a top GM official and co-chair of the One United Michigan campaign, which is organizing...
...bloc - as in many of the key House and Senate races that will determine who controls Congress - may well be white women, the soccer/security moms who often decide later than other groups on how they will vote. The Free Press poll found 83% of blacks opposed the measure to ban affirmative action, while 53% of white men supported it. But white women were about equally divided on the issue, with 20% undecided. Affirmative action proponents are pitching their arguments squarely at them, warning of the loss of funding for programs that promote women in traditionally male-dominated fields like engineering...
...Measures to ban gay marriage are on the ballot in nine states, including Virginia and Tennessee, and conservative activists will point to the New Jersey decision as a reason people in those states should go to the polls, even if they?re dissatisfied with how the Republican majority has run the country. If that message resonates, the same people celebrating the New Jersey decision could be having mixed feelings about it come Election...