Michigan
With early voting, Michigan election officials anticipate a low turnout for Tuesday’s primary
DETROIT (CBS DETROIT) – Simply moving the Michigan presidential primary up one month meant a whole new ballgame for some election officials in Metro Detroit.
“We had all new rules and processes and procedures. We had some new technology,” said Michael Siegrist, Canton Township’s Clerk.
Staffing is the biggest challenge they’ve had to deal with thus far.
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“A lot of our reliable poll workers in Canton, we need about 300 per election. Most of them are they are out of town, or they are essentially in Florida-a lot of snowbirds because of the demographic of who tends to work and volunteer for elections, so we were not able to have them come and work in February; they didn’t return for us,” Siegrist said.
They spent about $5,000 to recruit new election inspectors
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“My hope is that with the expansion of mail voting and the option for people to vote in person early, that tomorrow will be a pretty quiet day,” Siegrist said.
Something that won’t be muted are members of the “Primary Pivot” Super PAC
“We want to save our democracy, and we don’t save our democracy by not voting,” said Tracy Pease, a member of Primary Pivot.
Amid a push from Democrats urging voters to choose an uncommitted option in response to President Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war.
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This group of democrats is encouraging their party to vote for Republican Nikki Haley.
“We are either going to save our democracy, or we’re gonna usher in a dictator. It’s your choice. Don’t vote non-committal. Vote for Nikki Haley if you’re a Democrat. Let’s not give Donald Trump an opportunity to go ahead and steal our democracy,” Pease said.
Polls close at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Former President Donald Trump’s chances of defeating Vice President Kamala Harris have improved significantly over the past week in Michigan, according to a bookmaker.
Trump’s odds of winning Michigan’s presidential election were up by 14 percentage points with online betting platform Polymarket on Friday. Michigan is considered among at least seven battleground states that could decide the presidency on November 5.
While Polymarket still listed Harris as a 52 percent to 48 percent favorite in Michigan, the Democratic nominee saw her advantage over the Republican slip from a much wider lead of 67 percent to 34 percent only one week earlier on September 27.
Newsweek reached out for comment to the Trump and Harris campaigns via email on Friday.
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Polls suggest that Michigan is very likely to be a tight contest. While Harris has been a slight favorite for the past two months, Trump has been gaining ground in the state in some recent surveys.
A pair of Republican-leaning polls conducted late last month showed the former president with a 1 percent to 2 percent lead over Harris. An average of recent polls compiled by FiveThirtyEight shows the vice president leading Trump by 1.6 percent as of Friday.
Trump was defeated by President Joe Biden in Michigan by 2.8 points in 2020. He won the state by less than 11,000 votes over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016, becoming the first Republican to win Michigan since former President George H.W. Bush in 1988.
The Wolverine State is among the three so-called “blue wall” swing states that are considered vital for Democratic hopes of winning in November. Polls and betting odds in the other two states, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, are also tight.
Polymarket, which was funded in part by early Trump backer Peter Thiel, has also given the former president a significant odds boost in Pennsylvania over the past week. Trump is a 55 percent to 46 percent favorite in the Keystone State as of Friday, up from a nearly even contest one week earlier.
The FiveThirtyEight Pennsylvania polling average show Harris with a very small 0.6-point lead over Trump as of Friday.
In Wisconsin, Harris was a slight Polymarket betting favorite on Friday, although her 52 percent chance of winning was down from 56 percent the previous week. The Badger State polls showed the race neck-and-neck, with Harris holding another 0.6-point lead in the FiveThirtyEight average.
Polymarket is among several online betting platforms that offer odds on the presidential election. Nearly all of the bookmakers show Harris and Trump with roughly even chances of winning the overall election in November.
While betting on elections was technically illegal for many years in the U.S., a federal appeals court earlier this week sided with betting platform Kalshi in a lawsuit that effectively legalized the practice.
Michigan
Did the Gophers grow enough at Michigan to upset No. 11 USC? Here's Randy Johnson’s prediction.
The Gophers knew that the three-week stretch of games against Iowa, Michigan and USC would be daunting, and the result is two losses so far. The second half at Michigan had the Gophers looking like a team poised to break through, and they need that to continue against USC. The Trojans will gain their yards behind the passing of Moss, but the Gophers defense makes enough stops to force field-goal attempts while Minnesota’s offense comes through in the clutch.
My expectation: Needing a statement win against a “name” team, the Gophers finally get one. Gophers 27, USC 23
(CBS DETROIT) — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) says epizootic hemorrhagic disease cases are beginning to uptick and will likely result in higher deer mortality rates.
As October kicks off, archery season begins, and hunters may encounter dead deer. According to the DNR, a disease affecting the animal is having its worst outbreak in over 10 years.
“We don’t see the levels of transmission we’ve been seeing this year very often,” said DNR wildlife Chad Fedewa, acting deer specialist with the DNR wildlife division.
Epizootic hemorrhagic disease, which is on the rise statewide, mainly affects white-tailed deer. Eleven counties have confirmed cases, and at least 2,000 deer have contracted it, according to the DNR.
“When these deer contract the virus, they develop a high fever, so they seek water to cool down, and once they get the virus, they usually die within a few days,” Fedewa said.
The disease occurs every year, but this year, its numbers have increased. Midge flies, which are typically found in wet areas, transmit the disease.
“The bulk of the reports are coming from isolated parts of a county,” we’re told.
Cases of the virus have been reported in southeast Michigan, but the DNR mainly sees cases in the southwestern portions.
Pets and wildlife aren’t at risk and the disease isn’t a threat to humans.
“It does not impact the quality of meat there’s no human health concerns with EHD it only affects deer,” Fedewa continued.
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