The polls have not been closed long, but based on exit polls results several media organizations have declared President Barack Obama the winner of Michigan's 16 electoral votes on Tuesday, defeating Republican and native son Mitt Romney.
NBC, NPR, CNN, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post all have declared Obama the winner.
Media outlets also have called the overall race for Obama.
In the 2008 presidential election, the state voted for the Democratic candidate, and in recent elections has voted for the overall winner of the presidential race 3 out of 5 times.
Romney and Obama did not campaign aggressively in Michigan. The state has typically been a Democratic stronghold in recent presidential elections.
The economy was a key issue for many voters in the state, as was the auto bailout.
Voter turnout in Michigan was high throughout most of the day, with long lines in the morning in many cities in the Detroit area.
I say, hang on all you R voters. Life will get better and you'll still be griping. The rest of us will get happier. =) You will be too but you won't know it.
It's called Capitalism - letting the market forces do their thing -
So a President has no right to blame the previous regime - unless they were Democrats?! Marcus, do you realize how nutty that sounds?
A recession was coming, it's cyclical. It shouldn't have hit until after Bush left office, but because of the housing bubble popping, the crap-hit-the-fan in 2007. He wasn't going to fix anything. The plan was set in motion in the mid-90's, thus leaving it in Obama's lap. It WAS Clinton's fault (along with Freddie Mac & Freddie Mae). Clinton even bragged about it in 2009 saying, "...my Administration has put tremendous emphasis on promoting homeowners and making housing more affordable for all Americans. Our housing programs and institutions have been a success. The homeownership rate is at an all-time high, with more than 66 percent of all American families owning their homes..." He didn't make it 'more affordable', he made it more accessible to people that couldn't afford it. And when the recession was coming at us, all those people walked away from the homes. The Dem's believed home ownership should be available to all and basically forced the hands of banks to not turn anyone down. Clinton was proud of this accomplishment. They got it and that it what led us to the mess we are in. I don't blame Obama for not completely fixing it, but we should be in much better shape than where we're at right now. Duke, as for the wars, you don't attack our country with our own planes, kill thousands of innocent citizens and get away with it. We had no option but to go after those scumbags. I'll give you the argument on Saddam, but not Bin Laden.
Reagan didn't ruin the country. Reagan is looked upon as one of the greatest presidents of all time. Clinton is viewed as one of the greatest Dem presidents ever. They both did fantastic. Clinton put us in the housing crisis which pushed our recession very close to depression. You have to look back at the root cause whether its 8, 10, or 12 years. This will always happen. There is a cause. Clinton wanted everyone to have homeownership. That was great, as long as a recession didn't come along because that's when people would stop paying their mortgage. Once they got upside down, they walked away. With the help of the wars, kaplooey went the economy. Nobody saw the housing mess in the late 90's-early 2000's. Nobody. But if Clinton doesn't get the blame for the housing collapse, who does then? Don't think I'm Clinton bashing, because he was a great president. Clinton was coming into his own in '94 but lost the Congress. Not wanting to be a lame duck pres, he reached across the aisle and governed fantastically. Perhaps the best in history. And that is where I find fault with Obama. He doesn't reach across the aisle. To get, you have to give a bit. Though, the Republican congress is as much to blame.
I know you're next comment. Spend less. Well, we spend all the money we take in on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and interest on the debt. Which of those would you like to cut first?
Mike, I never said anyone tried to lose their homes. The financial meltdown wouldn't have been what it was without the housing crisis and though I was all for it back in the late 90's, in hindsight it was a very bad idea. And that falls on Clinton. Bush's two wars didn't help. And yes, the bankers screwed up too. Sorry to hear you lost your job. I had 5 co-workers (of 13 of us) laid off - 38% of our workforce and then I was on 40 hours for 3 years. Drained my 401k to save my house. I'm not Dem or Republican and if you read in another reply of mine below you'll see that. Clinton was one of my favorite presidents because he worked with the Republicans. I'm fine with Obama being pres. Never said I wasn't, but, he and the Republican Congress have to both do a little give and take.
So, is the home owner at fault? Possibly. They listened to the guy in the suit and the slick office telling them that they can afford this house and the way that the market was going, they can flip the house for even more money if the got into financial problems. I know because they tried that with me. They told me I should buy a house twice the price that I had in mind. (I didn't) So the banks were like the crack dealers and the home owners were like the curious teenagers. Who do you blame? The guy who made a bad decision, lost his house and his life savings - or the guy who got rich advising the other guy to make that bad decision? Or maybe the guy who got rich telling the banker to tell the home owner to make the bad decision because knows he can bundle the crap and sell it to some unsuspecting investor?