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76%
Hillary Clinton

13%

Donald Trump

Projected Student Candidate Choice: Nov. 6

Source: Michigan Daily student survey (rounded to nearest percent)

6%

Gary Johnson

1%

Jill Stein

4.4%

Other

During the lead up to the 

presidential 
election, 
The 

Michigan Daily is polling students 
about campaign issues every two 
weeks. This is the fourth and final 
iteration of the survey. Overall, 
polling data can be seen here.

This week, the survey was 

sent to 1,000 University of 
Michigan students and received 
205 responses over a period 
of five days. The sample was 
chosen randomly from University 
undergraduate 
and 
graduate 

students and reported in the 
aggregate.

The majority of respondents 

Protesters threw beer and 

opened a can of pepper spray 
during a visit from former Alaska 
Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R) visit to 
the Town Pump Tavern in 
Detroit on Sunday night where 
she was slated to campaign for 
Republican presidential nominee 
Donald Trump and participate in 
an interview with Fox News’s Bill 
O’Reilly.

Palin was in Michigan as 

part of a series of stops in the 
state planned by the Trump 
campaign in the leadup to the 
election amid a tightening race 
in the state, which hasn’t been 
won by a Republican since 1988. 
Clinton currently leads by five 
points, according to an aggregate 
of polls, and has stepped up her 
presence in Michigan as well.

Shortly after Palin’s arrival at 

the Detroit bar, two men began 
to yell obscenities and anti-
Trump rhetoric before they were 
removed by the owner. According 
to an eyewitness, a woman threw 
beer on the bar owner while he 

was walking the men out of the 
bar.

“I 
saw 
two 
guys 
being 

dispersed 
while 
Palin 
was 

talking (to the crowd), and they 
were being put out by what 

I understand to be the bar’s 
owner,” the eyewitness said. 
“And then this woman who 
was sitting at the bar, who was 
drinking a beer, splashed it on the 
owner as he was escorting the 

men out. This caused him to react 
in a violent way — he threw them 
all out.”

Once outside, the two men 

continued to cause a disturbance, 

With campaign stops from both 

presidential candidates and their 
surrogates just days before the 
election, Michigan’s importance 
as a possible swing state in the 
presidential election has never 
been more apparent.

Both Democratic presidential 

nominee 
Hillary 
Clinton 
and 

Republican presidential nominee 
Donald Trump will hold rallies in 
the state on Monday. Additionally, 
Republican 
vice 
presidential 

nominee Mike Pence will campaign 
with Trump, and President Barack 
Obama will be in Ann Arbor in a Get 
Out the Vote rally for Clinton. Over 
the weekend, former president Bill 
Clinton stopped in Lansing and 

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Vol. CXXVI, No. 23
©2016 The Michigan Daily

NEWS......................... 2A

OPINION.....................4A

CL A SSIFIEDS .............. 5A

SUDOKU..................... 2A

A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 A

S P O R T M O N DAY. . . . . . . . .1 B

See DATA, Page 3A

LANSING — Sunday at the 

Lansing 
United 
Automobile 

Workers chapter, President Bill 
Clinton spoke to a crowd of 300 
in a bid to convince state residents 
that 
Democratic 
presidential 

nominee Hillary Clinton could 
create economic prosperity in the 
state .

Bill Clinton’s speech came 

just two days before the election 
and is part of a blitz of visits to 

Michigan from both Democrats 
and Republicans as the race in the 
state tightens, including a stop in 
Ann Arbor by President Barack 
Obama Monday.

Currently, Clinton is leading 

Republican presidential nominee 
Donald Trump in Michigan polls 
by a margin of 4.7 percent, but 
previously led by a 11.6 percent 
margin as late as Oct. 21, according 
to the RealClearPolitics polling 
average. A Republican presidential 
candidate has not won in Michigan 
since George H. W. Bush in 1988.

Bill Clinton told the crowd he 

believed Hillary Clinton would 
win Michigan easily in a normal 
election, 
but 
acknowledged 

Republican presidential nominee 
Donald 
Trump’s 
current 

momentum, tying it to frustrations 
about 
stagnating 
middle-class 

incomes after the financial crisis 
in 2008.

That 
economic 
stagnation 

has been a core part of Trump’s 
message, especially in typically 
blue states like Michigan with 
high proportions of blue-collar 
workers.

“It’s close to the elections 

and I believe Hillary will carry 
Michigan if we turn out — in a 
normal election, it wouldn’t be 
close,” Bill Clinton said. “We all 
know what’s going on, there’s a 
lot of road rage out there, because 
after the financial crash, it took a 
long time before income started 
going up again.”

In a bid to speak to that 

frustration, Bill Clinton noted he 
has been devoted to helping the 
middle class get ahead, especially 
during his time in office as 
president.

See SWING, Page 3A

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See PALIN, Page 3A

See CLINTON, Page 3A

Sunday, just two days before 

Tuesday’s presidential election, 
Republican 
presidential 

nominee Donald Trump made 
a campaign stop in Sterling 
Heights, Mich.

More 
than 
8,000 
people 

attended the Trump rally, held at 
the Freedom Hill Amphitheater, 
the Detroit News reported.

The 
Michigan 
Daily 
was 

denied 
credentials 
to 
this 

event, as well as to the Trump 
campaign’s stops last week in 
Grand Rapids and Warren. 

During his speech Sunday, 

Trump spoke to the crowd about 
a range of issues, including 
unemployment, 
taxes 
and 

See TRUMP, Page 3A

Another blowout

The No. 3 Michigan football 

team made light work of 

Maryland, beating the 

Terrapins, 59-3, Saturday at 

Michigan Stadium to move 

to 9-0 on the season.

» Page 1B

Clinton visits 
Eastern Market

Democratic presidential 
nominee visits Michigan 
days before election
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CAROLYN GEARIG/Daily

President Bill Clinton speaks in support of his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, at the United Auto Workers office in Lansing, Michigan 
Sunday. 

AMANDA ALLEN/Daily

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) listens for her cue from an ear piece as supporters of Republican presidential nominee 
Donald Trump pull the blinds down on a protestor outside of the window at Town Pump Tavern in Detroit Sunday.

In Daily poll, 
 
 
 

support for 
third parties 
sees decline

Bill Clinton appeals to blue-collar 
workers in Michigan UAW speech

2016

Preference for Clinton grows in leadup to 
presidential election Tuesday

CAITLIN REEDY
Daily Staff Reporter

Former president cites his own work in creating jobs, economic prosperity

CALEB CHADWELL

Daily Staff Reporter

In last days, 
Mich. gets 
swing state 
 

treatment

GOVERNMENT

As campaigns come to 
a close, nominees aim 
to sway key constituents

LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter

Sarah Palin leaves Detroit campaign 
event early after a fight breaks out

Protesters throw beer, open can of pepper spray at pro-Trump gathering

TIM COHN

Daily Staff Reporter

Trump talks 
emails and 
employment 
in Lansing

ELECTIONS

In Michigan rally, 
nominee criticizes FBI 
review

RIYAH BASHA
Daily Staff Reporter

