Tea party or no tea party, Michigan Democrats are hoping to recreate some of the Obama magic that led to major Democratic victories in 2008.
Speaking last weekend at the Jeff-Jack dinner in Detroit, Granholm urged state Democrats to take up the fight during this year’s elections in the wake of Tea Party protests nationwide, Gongwer News reported.
"All of us here should not be feeling blue about the Tea Party protesters," she said.
State Senate Minority Leader Mike Prusi, a Democrat, dismissed tea partiers as a bunch of angry and uninformed people and urged Democrats not to rest on their laurels.
U.S. Sen. Carl Levin acknowledged that Republicans have been doing well in recent nationally in recent months, but that they “peaked too early.” Democrats will do better later this year, he said.
