Detroit decided Electorial Vote for Michigan
Over at Captains Quarter there is a map of the U.S. by county showing how each county voted in the Presidential Race.
Looking at Michigan I was very surprised to see that basically all of Michigan, except Detroit voted for Bush (yea!). In doing the calculations if you took out Wayne County (the county that Detroit is in), Bush would have won Michigan, although I might suspect that if you took out just Detroit's vote the rest of Wayne county probably would have gone Bush.
So really, Detroit was the deciding factor in Michigans vote. Because counting Detroit's vote Kerry Won 51% to 47%. If you took Detroit's votes out Bush would have won 52%-48%.
So why is Detroit so Democratic, one reason. Welfare recipiants. 20% of all people in Detroit are on Welfare, that's close to 1 in 4 people. The last time we had a Republican Governor in office he cut Welfare and initiate back to work reforms for Welfare recipiants, they don't like Republicans. They like the nanny like state a Democrat will provide, which Kerry was promising them also.