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...resolution is a bittersweet ending for the people of Detroit. When Kilpatrick, the former minority leader in the Michigan House of Representatives, was elected in 2001 as the city's youngest mayor, the charismatic African-American politician brought energy to the economically decimated city. In the years since, thanks largely to the construction of both a baseball park and an NFL stadium downtown, the city has slowly begun to rebuild. Small but growing numbers of young professionals have moved in from the suburbs to live in newly constructed loft apartments, helping to slow the exodus that has slashed Detroit...
...case, the mayor who wore flashy suits and a diamond in his ear has courted the wrong kind of attention. The danger to Obama's campaign is that years of salacious headlines about a young black man in power will bleed into voters' views of his own groundbreaking candidacy. "Michigan is really close. He has to go if we're going to have any chance at winning over the folks in Macomb County," said one senior UAW official, who asked not to be identified...
...Kilpatrick scandal has also damaged an already weakened Democratic brand in Michigan. Governor Jennifer Granholm is nearly as unpopular as Kilpatrick, and was dragged into the mess when the Detroit city council asked her to hold public hearings to determine whether the mayor should be forced from office, a power the governor has under Michigan law. The hearings began yesterday, and their suspension in the wake of Kilpatrick's guilty plea now allows Obama to become the most visible Democrat in the state heading into the fall campaign. Obama will need the next two months to make up for what...
McCain understands that if he wins Michigan, it could put him over the top. His first campaign stop after the Republican National Convention is tomorrow in Macomb County, home of the white working-class voters who became Reagan Democrats in the 1980s. But McCain's decision not to pick Mitt Romney as his running mate may have made his odds a little longer. The former Massachusetts governor and Michigan native was the one potential Veep that Democrats in the state feared. And they believe Obama's current 4-point lead in state polls will only grow as voters...
...yesterday's hearing chaired by Granholm, reporters asked one of Kilpatrick's lawyers about the mayor's absence from the proceedings. "I told you," she said. "It wasn't my turn to watch him." Michigan voters will be paying far less attention to Kilpatrick as well this fall. And that's just the way the Obama campaign wants...