GRAND RAPIDS, MI—There are thousands of people in the parking lot and red foliage on the trees. The rain that blanketed west Michigan all week has let up. It’s a perfect backdrop for a campaign event as long as you ignore the drunk couple fighting in front of the port-a-potties.
Terri Lynn Land is hoping that her focus on kitchen table issues can convince heavily Democratic voters in Michigan to send a Republican to the U.S. Senate for the first time in 20 years.
Michigan environmentalist Democrat Gary Peters refuses to sell the thousands he has reaped in profits from a Big Oil investment tied to an alleged pollutant.
National Democrats and liberal outside spending groups are dumping money into Michigan, as nominee Rep. Gary Peters has failed to take a commanding lead in the normally safe Democratic state.