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"  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 If you want a likely result for which you can start cheering right now, it looks like the authoritarian &amp;quot;special masters&amp;quot; law in Michigan \u2014 which allows the governor to throw out the elected government of a town and install one of his croni... er... a &amp;quot;special master&amp;quot; to run things, whether the people want the special master or not \u2014 is going to be repealed, and by a fairly healthy \u2014 and shockingly bipartisan \u2014 margin. Michigan&amp;#039;s emergency managers law appears headed for defeat, with only 36% of voters supporting to 45% who are opposed. 19% are still undecided, which suggests some possibility for an upset. It&amp;#039;s not terribly surprising that Democrats (28/51) and independents (40/44) are opposed. But the real reason it&amp;#039;s trailing is a lack of support from Republicans, who favor it by only a 40/38 margin. Rick Snyder has a 75/9 approval rating with GOP voters, but they don&amp;#039;t appear to be listening to their Governor on this issue. Back about 10 years ago, when the administration of C-Plus Augustus was rolling back civil liberties, a popular (and largely ignored) argument from its opponents was to ask whether or not the administration&amp;#039;s partisans would be happy to have all these new powers in the hands of, say, President Hillary Clinton. (They are now in the hands of President Barack Obama, and nobody seems overly concerned.) It appears that, as regards this law at least, Michigan Republicans have thought the whole thing all the way through and have decided that the possibility that Michigan may one day have another Democratic governor is reason enough to repeal the law now. While most of the attention drawn by the anti-democratic measures passed by the various Republican governors and legislators elected in 2010 has been concentrated on the laws that strip union rights (Wisconsin, Ohio), or that disenfranchise people at the polls (practically everywhere). But this law was particularly heinous. And if the only way to undo them is to do it at the ballot box one law at a time, one election at a time, then that&amp;#039;s the way it will have to be done. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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