The ousted Republican incumbent Lucy Ebel had previously described Ottawa County as "very conservative."

Republican county commissioner has been unseated in Michigan after losing to her Democratic challenger by 20 percentage points.

Chris Kleinjans won an Ottawa County election on Tuesday with 60 percent of the vote share, while the Republican incumbent Lucy Ebel lost, having received 40 percent.

Michigan is a battleground state that will be key to November’s presidential election. Donald Trump won the county with 61 percent of the vote in 2020.

  • mkwt@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 months ago

    And really people are not making phone calls nearly as much as they used to. The pollsters need to find a reasonably unbiased method to sample people on other communication methods.

    • MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 months ago

      I get texts about polls but I would rather jump on a live grenade than answer an unsolicited communication, be that a text or anything else, and I’m sure I’m not the only one.

    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      2 months ago

      I did a weekly email survey in 2016 for $5 gift cards each time. That definitely worked but I can’t imagine it’s sustainable. Paying people also probably comes with an entirely different sort of bias.

    • lobut@lemmy.ca
      4·
      2 months ago

      I don’t see myself as too much of a loner or anything but I had a friend call me out of the blue during lunch and I just kept thinking.

      Why oh why are you not texting me?

      I’m horrible.