These findings come 

amid 
former 
Attorney 

General 
Jeff 
Sessions’s 

forced resignation, which 
has left the future of 
special 
counsel 
Robert 

Mueller’s 
investigation 

into Russian involvement 
in 
the 
2016 
election 

unclear. Trump has since 
appointed 
Matthew 

Whitaker 
as 
acting 

attorney general.

According 
to 
the 

study, 35 percent of the 
respondents 
identified 

as 
Republicans 
or 

independents 
who 

lean 
Republican, 
43 

percent as Democrats or 
independents who lean 
Democratic and 17 percent 
as independents with no 
partisan lean.

The 
survey 
found 

candidates 
who 
favor 

political 
control 

over 
independent 

investigations 
instead 

of neutrality were 5.3 
percentage 
points 
less 

likely to win the support of 
Democratic voters, nearly 
four 
percentage 
points 

less likely for Republicans, 
and 
8.1 
percentage 

points less likely among 
independents.

This specific finding 

stood in contrast to the 
others of the study, in 
which there were sharp 
partisan 
divides 
when 

it came to tax policy, 
discrimination 
and 

affirmative 
action 
and 

voting rights.

Nyhan 
said 
he 
was 

surprised by the bipartisan 
support of independent 
investigations.

“I thought the stream 

of attacks by the Trump 
administration 
on 
the 

Mueller investigation and 
on 
unfavorable 
rulings 

by judges would produce 
a wider partisan divide,” 
Nyhan wrote in an email 

CIT Y LIGHTS

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: HOLIDAY CREATES ‘GHOST TOWN’

John James, the 2018 U.S. 

Senate candidate for the state of 
Michigan, is being considered 
by President Donald Trump to 
replace Nikki Haley, ambassador 
to the United Nations, according 
to recent reports.

James, a Republican who 

served as president of James 
Group International, a firm based 
in Detroit, lost the November 
midterm election for one of 
Michigan’s U.S. Senate seats 
to incumbent Democrat Sen. 
Debbie Stabenow. James ran as 
a “conservative outsider who 
supports the Trump agenda,” 
making issues like border security 
and governmental deregulation 
central to his platform. While 
James was ahead of Stabenow for 
much of the evening, once votes 
were counted from metropolitan 
Detroit, 
Stabenow 
defeated 

James with 52.2 percent of the 

state’s votes, compared to James’s 
45.8 percent. This was Stabenow’s 
weakest showing in the polls 
since her election in 2000, when 
she first took office in the Senate.

During the election season, 

many 
state 
and 
national 

Republicans 
promoted 
James 

as a rising star in the party. Both 
Trump and Vice President Mike 
Pence headlined rallies for James. 
Trump endorsed James during 
the Republican primary cycle and 
invited James to the White House 
in September.

According 
to 
Bloomberg, 

James visited the White House 
last week to talk “about an 
administration post with Trump, 
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo 
and Vice President Mike Pence,” 
adding he is being considered 
to take the position of U.N. 
ambassador.

Current ambassador Haley 

served as governor of South 
Carolina from 2011 to 2017 
and 
was 
appointed 
to 
be 

U.N. 
ambassador 
following 

Trump’s election in 2016. It was 
announced in early October that 
Haley will resign at the end of the 
year. According to the Bloomberg 
report, Trump is also considering 
the U.S. ambassadors to France, 
Germany and Canada to take over 
the position.

LSA sophomore Dylan Berger, 

president of the University of 
Michigan’s chapter of College 
Republicans, stated he supports 
any possibility of James serving 
as U.N. ambassador.

“I’m ecstatic because John 

James is one of the most incredible 
public servants that we have in 
our nation at this point … In the 
beginning (of the Senate race) they 
gave him zero shot whatsoever 
against Debbie Stabenow and he 
ended up getting 46 percent of 
the vote and that’s because of who 
he is,” Berger said. “I can’t think 
of anyone that would represent 
our nation better at the United 
Nations than John James would 

and I enthusiastically support 
his nomination to the United 
Nations. I hope that the president 
makes that decision.”

Public Policy junior Katie Kelly, 

who serves as communications 
director 
of 
the 
University’s 

chapter of College Democrats, 
expressed concern over James’s 
qualifications to serve in a 
position within foreign relations.

“John James does not hold the 

proper experience required to be 
an effective UN Ambassador,” 
Kelly wrote in an email interview. 
“With no prior experience with 
international politics or as an 
ambassador, James is clearly 
unqualified 
to 
handle 
the 

intricacies of foreign relations. 
We 
need 
qualified 
people 

representing our country on the 
international level. We hope the 
Trump administration will think 
carefully about who they put into 
this position and that they are 
qualified to speak on behalf of the 
United States.”

November 28, 1988

Although 
about 
900,000 

people gathered on the streets 
of 
downtown 
Detroit 
45 

minutes 
away 
to 
celebrate 

Thanksgiving with a parade, 
Ann Arbor was a lonely town. 
“I can’t wait to get out of here 
— who would be staying?” said 
Amy Keen, an LSA sophomore 
on her way home to Tennessee. 
Yet there are a few students 
who stay behind. And for 
them, Thanksgiving break is 
not spent eating turkey with 
their families and watching 
parades. For Marcus Lien, an 
LSA junior from Pittsburg, who 
stayed “because of the money 
and because I had to study,” 

the atmosphere around was a 
pleasant one. “It was really nice. 
I like it better without people, 
the school is really peaceful.” 
Guo Tao, a graduate student 
in Electrical Engineering who 
stayed for the duration said, 
“most of the time I am working 
or at school — the four day 
break gives me lots of free 
time to do my dissertation.” 
For most local businesses, the 
days of Thanksgiving are too 
slow to stay open. “The place 
looks like ghost town,” said 
Stucci’s manager Chris Fisher, 
who closed all his ice cream 
parlours 
for 
Thanksgiving. 

“As far as the University area 
is concerned, all businesses 
are closed,” he said. The only 

restaurant 
opened 
around 

the University was The Great 
Wall. “Thanksgiving is not a 
Chinese Holiday and besides 
we open all year,” said manager 
Chu Monner. “We think some 
people do not go home because 
they have no place to go so 
they could eat here.” Monner 
reported that business was not 
as good as usual, but it was 
better Thursday than Friday. 
Many don’t realize that some 
students stay behind. “I never 
thought about people who do 
not go,” said Daren Stabinski 
an LSA sophomore who left 
last Friday for Florida. “I 
could never really imagine, it 
seems like a time when you 
should go home or have your 

family here,” said Kathleen 
Klonowski a LSA sophomore 
from Saginaw who went home 
but came back early to prepare 
for exams she has this week. 
Yet Klonowski realizes that not 
everyone, including her brother 
from California, can afford 
to go home for Thanksgiving. 
“We really miss him but it is 
impossible for him to come — 
we call him and try to keep the 
tie. He would be home pretty 
soon too.” Lien also held this as 
a consolation. “I’m going home 
in three weeks and with the 
tuition increase I can’t afford 
to go home (more) often.” Last 
evening the “ghost town” came 
back to life. The parking lots 
were full and the streets came 

alive once again. Computer 
centers filled yesterday with 

people on waiting lists trying to 
do their papers for today.

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