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Michigan Governor John Engler has done everything he could to gift wrap the G.O.P. nomination for George W. Bush. He banged the drum for Bush with his fellow Governors and got 18 of them to endorse the Texan early last year. He helped Bush write his education proposal and then pitched in to sell it. And in a move Engler thought would secure more than just the nomination, he moved up his state primary by a month, to Feb. 22, so that Michigan would be the real fire wall--the place where Bush's rivals would flame out for good...
...their part, the Republican Governors were generally holding fast for Bush. It helps that they have nowhere else to go; but they had been bracing for this anyway. For several weeks top Republicans, including Michigan's John Engler, had been quietly complaining that the Bush campaign has been too secretive, too insular, too resistant to taking outside advice. Bush himself had expressed impatience with the way the Iron Triangle of Hughes, Rove and campaign manager Joe Allbaugh had limited access of ideas and people but never took any step to open things up. "This is a colossal f___up," said...
...thing's for sure - Bush is nervous. Sure, everyone has been talking about firewalls; how W. doesn't need to worry because John Engler is going to wrap Michigan up in a nice blue box and personally deliver it to Austin; how there's no way in heck that McCain walks out of California a viable candidate. And yet Bush is worried, because even as a relative political neophyte he knows that the easiest and best way to stop your opponent is never to let him get started. So he's staking quite a bit of his capital here, both...
...South Carolina, McCain gets to return home. But he faces a strong challenge from Bush, who has Arizona's Governor on his side and is running dead even. If Bush can come in a close second or even win, he will have embarrassed McCain at home. Michigan Governor John Engler, an F.O.W. (Friend of W.), has promised he will deliver his state to Bush. McCain has just begun to campaign here, yet polls show him cutting Bush's lead from 64 points to 25 in just one month. Independent voters, who can vote in the Michigan primary, may help...
Separately, some advocates pursued this issue in the Michigan political arena earlier this year. Some Republicans, including popular Governor John Engler, supported them. Engler called for home-schooler access to public teams in his state of the state address. But proponents of a bill forcing the change were no match for John Roberts, head of the Michigan High School Athletic Association, the nonprofit that writes the rules for athletic eligibility, rules adopted by almost every school. Now in his 14th year as executive director, Roberts wields enormous influence over high school sports in a state that takes them seriously...