All eyes are on Michigan today for Bernie supporters. I picked this up off of the google news-stream, published 20 minutes ago. It looks encouraging!
From Western Michigan
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. - Polling places are busy on this primary election day in Michigan.
County Clerks expected a high voter turn out because of the interest in both the Republican and Democrat primaries in Michigan. Some clerks even printed additional ballots to be prepared for large numbers of voters.
Turnout is proving to be high in West Michigan.
County Clerks in Kent, Ottawa, and Muskegon Counties tell WZZM 13 News that polling places are the busiest they have seen in a primary election in decades.
And from Eastern Michigan
Presidential Primary: Turnout expected to be higher than 2012
Halfway through Election Day for the Michigan presidential primary, in northern Macomb County turnout has been “consistent,” according to Washington Township Clerk Kathy Bosheers.
Bosheers said that voters have been coming out to the two precincts at the Washington Township Hall throughout the day.
She also said that requests for absentee ballots were up by more than 600 from the 2012 presidential primary. Whether those ballots are returned will not be known until tomorrow
From the Bernie Camp
Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver called Michigan “a critical showdown.”
“If there is a large voter turnout of young people and working people, come out and demand that we have a government that represents all of us and not just the 1 percent wealthy campaign contributors and people are willing to stand up and fight for social justice and economic justice, I think we’re going to do just fine today in Michigan,” he told WWJ’s Greg Bowman.