Michigan Dems Mai Xiong and Peter Herzberg crushed their Republican opponents 65 to 34 percent in the 13th state House District and 60 to 38 percent in the 25th, respectively, on Tuesday to restore the Democratic trifecta in the Great Lakes State’s government, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Obviously there are a great many other implications of unified control at least through January but one worth mentioning here, as pointed out by Daily Kos’s Stephen Wolf, is the rare opportunity to get Michigan’s 15 electoral college votes added to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which currently stands at 209 with Maine’s recent addition to the generation-long effort to runaround the 18th century relic that advantages Republican presidential candidates unnecessarily.