Michigan Governor Granholm to endorse Hillary?

[SaveElmer]

The Associated Press is reporting that "Gov. Jennifer Granholm says she'll endorse a Democratic presidential candidate next week."

In the article that appeared on Michigan Live.com, it was speculated that Granholm would back New York Sen. Hillary Clinton as a result of recent withdrawal of four Democratic presidential candidates from the January 15, 2008 Democratic presidential primary.

In a related story, the Detroit Free-Press corroborates the Associated Press' reports with this:

Gov. Jennifer Granholm said today she will endorse a Democratic presidential candidate next week, and hinted it may be Hillary Clinton.

Granholm said she is "very disappointed in the candidates who chose to abandon Michigan" referring to the four or five candidates who announced Tuesday they would not campaign in Michigan because of its early primary.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/10/10/14310/730

[Freddie Stubbs]

1. Without Edwards and Obama on the ballot, MI should shold be cakewalk for Hillary?

Who is going to stop her, Kucinich?

[SaveElmer]

2. Kucinich dropped out too...

Hillary and Obama the only two that think Michigan voters ought to have a say...

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. Actually, Kucinich's campaign isn't even competent enough to drop out:

Kucinich remains on Michigan ballot after trying to withdraw
10/10/2007, 11:06 a.m. EDT
By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN
The Associated Press

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich remains on the Michigan Jan. 15 presidential primary ballot along with Hillary Rodham Clinton and two others, despite his attempts to withdraw.

Four other Democratic candidates have taken their names out of contention, turning the primary into basically a beauty contest for front-runner Clinton and the other three lesser-known candidates.

Barack Obama, John Edwards and Bill Richardson filed paperwork Tuesday saying they were withdrawing. Two other candidates, Joe Biden and Dennis Kucinich, said in statements that they also were bypassing the primary.

But Kucinich twice filed incorrect paperwork with the secretary of state's office, and had not filed a notice of withdrawal with his notarized signature by Tuesday's 4 p.m. deadline, said the office's spokesman, Ken Silfven.

more: http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/base/news-47/119202963396730.xml&storylist=newsmichigan

[cyclezealot]

3. Kucinich only one this MI dem will vote for.

DK is on ballot because he did not get paperwork to the Secretary of State's office in time. A MI Dem favoring Hillary with her Trade advocacy. After Gov. Granholm blames outsourcing on Trade Policies. Has she lost her mind. I suspect a lot of Mich Dems will vote in the Repuke primary. The Republicans claim to be interested in Michigan and it's problems. They will actively campaign in Michigan the next several months, unlike the Democrats.

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. Is an incompetently run campaign a good sign of a competent President?

:shrug:

[cyclezealot]

8. His issues surely are not incompetent.

He is right on. We don't need anymore Nafta's. Besides, its a likely the doing of a GOP Secretary of State.

[Freddie Stubbs]

9. What good is being right on the issues if you are too incompetent to carry them out?

:shrug:

[JNelson6563]

6. Fellow DLCer.

Frankly I am starting to wonder if this whole primary mess isn't contrived.

I know the bigger cogs high up in the machine here in MI tend to lean that way and none of 'em ever had much love for Dean. Now what do you know? We flip off the DNC, move our primary date, and all the 1st tier Dems take their names off the MI ballot but Hillary.

Coincidence? I doubt it.

Julie

[SaveElmer]

7. Ok so let me get this straight...

You are saying that this whole thing is some conspiracy between Hillary, the Michigan Democratic Party...and Obama, Edwards et al...all to benefit Hillary's campaign?