Michigan will demonstrate its national leadership in race hatred tomorrow
Proposal 2 will pass by a large margin tomorrow despite a recent poll showing the ballot proposal trailing by 10 percentage points among Michigan voters, said Mark Grebner, founder of Lansing-based Practical Political Consulting, in an interview with Inside Michigan Politics....
In an attempt to recreate the environment voters face, Grebner has developed his own technique for polling ballot questions. Instead of conducting phone polls, Grebner mails dummy ballots to targeted areas around the state and lets his subjects fill them out in their own homes. Under this method, the voters are under no pressure to avoid sounding racist like they would on the phone, because the dummy ballots are anonymous....
"You need to let people be as bigoted as they really are," he said.