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Originally Posted by seattlelou
She's my Congresswoman which gives me no great authority here other than to say the following:
1. the Dingell dynasty has always skated the line between centrist and progressive
2. I get tons of her fund-raising emails daily and was exposed to a lot of her campaign rhetoric and posturing and I honestly can't remember her clarion calls about Trump's appeals. She can pretend she was Michael Moore but I sincerely can't remember it
3. she knows the GOP are huge favorites to control the redistricting process in 2020
4. related, she probably remembers what happened to Lynn Rivers the last time the MI state GOP took aim at the Dingells, sees the writing on the wall that she's going to get Ann Arbor cracked and half of her voters are getting stuffed into Tim Wallberg's district or she is going heads up with John Conyers (who will be like 94 years old or something) in some new Wayne County + downriver (read: angry whites) district and that either way becoming a half-Trumpkin is now entirely convenient for her.
Full disclosure, I may have had some personal/professional stakes in the 2002 primary that are coloring my analysis here.
On the other hand she's going to be fascinating to watch as emblematic of Democratic posturing in the Trump Era and beyond since the Republicans ARE going to target Democrats with chaos and create some MI districts that are colorful in ways that are entirely emblematic of the problems with the Democratic coalition. You're going to get one or two districts out of like a 200 sq mile area with Dearborn (Muslims) + downriver (angry whites) + Ann Arbor (effete white liberals) + Wayne county (mix of blacks, angry whites) and Democrats are going to have to figure out how to make it work there.
Last edited by DVaut1; 11-12-2016 at 05:56 AM.