~I~e Alidhigan 0aitjj . 3 'II{A'I, _ t (i 8II NI', )I l) I : T1) Ut1)1 1 1 x lYF I Io { 11 11 '1 } (1L\ )O Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, November 5,2014 michigandailycom BIG DAY FOR REPUBLICANS SNYDER EARNSSECOND TERM- G.O.P TAKES CONTROL OF U.S. SENATE MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS STATE EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR Rick Snyder (R) LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR Brian Calley (R) SECRETARY OF STATE Ruth Johnson (R) STATE JUDICIAL ATTORNEY GENERAL Bill Schuette (R) MICHIGAN LE MATI MICHIGAN STATE SENATE Rebekah Warren (D) * MICHIGAN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Jeff Irwin (D) U.1S. LEGISLATIVE U.S. SENATE Gary Peters (D) U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Debbie Dingell (D) WASHTENAW COUNTY PROBATE COURT Julia Owdziej (D) CIRCUIT COURT Patrick Conlin (D) ANN ARBOR MAYOR Christopher Taylor (D) CITY COUNCIL Sumi Kailasapathy (D) Chuck Warpehoski (D) Julie Grand (D) Graydon Kraphol (D) Kirk Westphal (D) REGENTS Too close to call TOP: Republican Gov. Rick Snyder celebrates after being reelected to a second term at the Renaissance Center in Detroit (JAMES COLLER/Daily). BOTTOM LEFT: U.S. Senator-elect Gary Peters (D) celebrates after being elected to his first term at the MGM Grand Detroit (AMANDA ALLEN/Daily). BOTTOM RIGHT: Attorney General Bill Schuette (R) addresses attendees at the Michigan Republican Party's watch party (JAMES COLLER/Daily). Sny derreelected to second term I dark day for Dems., Peters wins By nearly five point Snyder said. "It was not the time to fix Michigan; that was not margin, governor going to be good enough. It was rides on record to time to reinvent Michigan." In his speech, Snyder said defeat Schauer there was plenty of evidence of an economic turnaround. He pointed to the creation of nearly By BEN ATLAS 300,000 private sector jobs, the Daily StaffReporter increase in the value of Michi- gan homes and the greater num- Michigan voters have granted ber of college graduates taking four more years to the "nerd." jobs in the state as indicators of Republican Gov. Rick Snyder success. won reelection Tuesday, defeat- Yet despite Snyder's belief ing Democratic challenger Mark in the success of his first term, Schauer in a closer-than-expect- he maintained there was much ed campaign. work to be done in the next four With most precincts in the years. state reporting, Snyder captured "When you have success like 51 percent of the vote compared this what's the next thing you to Schauer's 47 percent. In the need to do? It's not to stay com- last few days before the election, placent, it's time to accelerate Snyder and Schauer were close and go even faster," Snyder said. inthe polls with the Detroit Free Snyder hinted at some of Press reporting a two-point lead his goals for his second term, in Snyder's favor on Oct. 29. like filling tens of thousands of In his victory speech at the skilled trade jobs, helping young Renaissance Center in Detroit people connect with education Tuesday night, Snyder empha- opportunities and improving sized the economic trouble the access to career technical edu- state had long endured and his cation, all of which he hopes will efforts to fundamentally change lead to more well-paying middle its course. class jobs. "Our spirit was being broken," Four years after running on a pledge to reinvent Michigan's economy, Snyder was able to secure a second term largely on his fulfillment of that prom- ise. His supporters point to his hands-on approach to Detroit's recovery as a signature accom- plishment of his first term. The state legislature, the city and its creditors and pensioners struck a Grand Bargain that allowed the city to move ahead with its bankruptcy proceedings, which will wrap up this month. On higher education, Snyder cut state funding in 2011 with the promise to raise it again in subsequent years. He has incre- mentally increased the funding but has yet to return it to the 2011 levels. Consequently, Schauer attempted to brand himself as the "education governor" in his campaign, calling for its funding to be restored to pre-2011 levels upon election to office. In terms of the statewide economy, Snyder repealed the Michigan Business Tax and replaced it with a flat tax to appeal to new businesses, and each of his last two budgets have resulted in a surplus. Addi- tionally, the state's 7.2-percent See SNYDER, Page 4A Democratic U.S. Senate candidate bucks national trend By SHOHAM GEVA Daily StaffReporter U.S. House Rep. Gary Peters (D-Detroit) will be the next U.S Senator from Michigan. Peters, who hasserved inthe U.S House of Representatives for five years, faced off against Terri -Lynn Land, former Michigan Secretary of State. The race was called by CNN and the Detroit Free Press at 9 p.m, and as of press time early Wednesday morning with 95 percent of precincts reporting, Peters led Land 55 percent to 41 percent. Minutes after Peters' pro- jected win was announced, Land called Peters to concede. She did not release a statement, talk to the press or speak to the Republican watch party in Detroit following her conces- sion. Peters will succeed fellow Democrat Carl Levin, who has served in the U.S. Senate for more than 35 years. The seat was originally expected to be hotly contested and potentially a key race to determine which party would be the overall majority in the Senate. However, Peters, who main- tained a slight lead in the polls over Land throughout much of the general election season, pulled away from his opponent significantly by the last quar- ter of the race to a double-digit lead. "Michigan was obviously a squandered opportunity for the Republicans," Political Science Prof. Michael Trau- gott said Tuesday night. "Her campaign got off to a bad start because of the initial interac- tion with the media, so her campaign team decided to hide her from reporters and restricted her access to voters at public events, so she never See PETERS, Page 4A w WEATHER HI 51 TOMORROW - [030 GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. 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