Of all the strange things in the recent presidential election, Michigan confuses me the most. After all, the Obama government saved GM and Chrysler from bankruptcy and Hillary Clinton voted for it.* The Federal government has contributed all sorts of aid to Flint, MI, to help their toxic water problem** in addition to the auto bailout. Hillary was also the earliest of politicians to visit Flint and is credited with helping to raise record donations from 1337 donors for the Community Foundation of Greater Flint.*** President Obama visited Flint and drank a glass of filtered water and said it was safe.**** Yet, Hillary lost to Bernie Sanders in the Michigan primary and lost the state in the general election.***** It is just weird.
It seems to me that the state of Michigan and Flint, MI, are ungrateful for all this administration and Hillary Clinton have done for them. Something that might have hurt Hillary was that she didn't waffle on her support of Pro Choice on abortion and went all out. There was considerable effort by Pro Life groups to turn out the vote.
* Hillary and the auto bailout
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/07/the-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-debate-over-the-auto-bailout-explained/
** Flint Fact Sheet on government involvement
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/03/fact-sheet-federal-support-flint-water-crisis-response-and-recovery
*** Hillary Clinton and the Flint, MI, lead rich water problem
http://michiganradio.org/post/beyond-talk-heres-what-hillary-clinton-and-bernie-sanders-are-doing-actually-help-flint
**** Drinking Filtered Water
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-drinks-flint-water_us_572a4117e4b016f378947a5d
***** http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/11/detroit_flint_voting_muscle_we.html
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