A key part of the ‘blue wall’ of Democratic support, Michigan is once again politically unpredictable

Since 2000, 37 counties consistently go Republican, while only seven counties reliably supported Democrats

Once-Democratic counties like Bay and Arenac are now Republican strongholds, but no county has shifted from solid Republican to Democratic

The blue wall crumbled for Democrats this week, just two years after the party seized control of all branches of government in Michigan in 2022.

In giving President-elect Donald Trump his second victory in three tries , Michigan voters backed a Republican for the sixth time since 1976, making it a certifiable swing state where the GOP has just a good a shot as Democrats.

Take 2008, for instance. President Barack Obama won 46 counties in the

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