The BridgeWhat happened?
Turnout soared this year to another record and many Democrats were motivated by Proposal 3, which sought to protect abortion rights.
But Democrats’ legislative win Tuesday began in 2018, when voters overwhelmingly backed redistricting reform.
No longer would the party in power — Republicans for decades — draw the lines that had made Michigan’s pro-GOP gerrymandering among the worst in the country.
Instead, a bipartisan committee of citizens would do so, approving sweeping changes last December that paid little heed to incumbents and their partisan affiliation.
The result was the Democratic takeover of the state Legislature.
Adrian Hemond, a Democratic strategist with the Grassroots Midwest firm in Lansing, had predicted Democrats could take advantage of the new political boundaries and flip both chambers if Whitmer managed to win by more than 8 percentage points.
She did — and Democrats did.
"There's no guarantee if she gets north of 8, but to make that even possible, she's got to get there," he said a week before the election. Whitmer won by that margin four years ago yet Republicans still retained majorities in the Legislature, but, Hemond said. those were "very different maps."
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Redistricting is a winner
Redistricting is a winner
Finally get a citizen led redistricting plan and things get fair quickly...
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