President Bush is scheduled to make a campaign stop in Marquette, MI today. The president will be speaking at the Superior Dome on the campus of Northern Michigan University with about 11,000 people expected to attend.
http://www.miningjournal.net/news/story/0712202004_new01-n0712.asp
What the other 200,000 of us in the Upper Peninsula can't figure out is why on earth would Bush want to come to Marquette? Marquette County is home to two of the oldest iron ore mines in the country and is an area that has seen hard times during his tenure in the Oval Office. We really took one on the chin when he prematurely revoked the steel tariffs. The United Steelworkers of America are represented at both mines and the area on the whole is a Democratic stronghold.
Nonetheless, it's the first visit by a sitting president for the area since President Taft in 1912. Please ignore the supporters at the rally. Rest assured those in attendance do not speak for the majority