I think Ted is too polarizing to get anything done, too radical to even hold his own party consistently. Might be nice to see him rile things up a little, hard to be worse than what's there.

I grew up in MI, it's sad to see what has happened but the reasons are clear and there's no easy fix. Basically a one-industry state, and that industry and its workers set itself up to be non-competitive in a changing world. All the current administration seems to be interested in is trying to maintain a status quo that has already failed when what they really need to do is change the business tax structure to motivate NEW industries to move in and replace the auto jobs that are NEVER coming back.

The green energy thing is laughable. They put those windmills up around my parents, not only were they all made out of state but they shipped in most of the labor as well. I think they only employ 4-6 local people to run the entire wind farm in a county that's lost over 1000 auto jobs in the past 5 years.