It’s Michigan day, where Hillary is running pretty much alone for no delegates on the Democrat side. Why would she do that?

On the Republican side, Huckabee and McCain, the frontrunners (!?), are competing for votes from Americans who have been screwed hard and repeatedly by pro-corporate policy, including free trade generally and water privatization in particular, a move that has “increased efficiency” there by essentially turning over Lake Michigan to the private sector, forcing people to get up out of their dwellings and walk like villagers do all over the world to go and collect water somewhere and cart it home to drink and cook and clean and wash themselves. Comically, the new Mitt Romney “change candidate” is running for the benefit of these people against the old Mitt Romney “mad successful corporate job slasher.” This last contest, Romney versus Romney, is the one worth watching.

One voter interviewed on CNN this morning says Michigan “needs a businessman in office” to help it out of its slump. This voter plans maybe to vote for Romney—as if President Romney is going to make it a priority to bring jobs back to Michigan! Please. If America is to be viewed as a business, then Michigan is the part of the business that isn’t working. My guess would be that a President Businessman Romney would run the numbers and make the tough decision to “close” whatever is left of “plant Michigan,” outsourcing the little left that hasn’t already been outsourced, like the Michigan population, for instance, which might profitably be transferred en masse to Mexico, where it could work for America from south of the border, in the sun and for a “good” wage.

In any case, the endorsement that matters most in Michigan went last week to Obama, or as indie-rock Detroit blogger Jasper put it: “to that Borat guy who just got elected president in Iowa or something.” The endorsement comes from the torrent Pirate Party, a champion of Net Neutrality working to speed the evolution of digital-information distribution away from entertainment-industry control. So, you heard it here first: Obama wins Michigan. Stay tuned for the story of Nevada, as the thrilling saga of the horse race for president continues and the Democrats vow to stop the poisonous race baiting threatening to Balkanize their supporters.

Above YouTube: a video for the candidates from what’s left of Detroit.