The ousted Republican incumbent Lucy Ebel had previously described Ottawa County as "very conservative."

Republican county commissioner has been unseated in Michigan after losing to her Democratic challenger by 20 percentage points.

Chris Kleinjans won an Ottawa County election on Tuesday with 60 percent of the vote share, while the Republican incumbent Lucy Ebel lost, having received 40 percent.

Michigan is a battleground state that will be key to November’s presidential election. Donald Trump won the county with 61 percent of the vote in 2020.

  • kescusay@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 months ago

    You can definitely expect more. Democrats are consistently over-performing versus the polls.

    Polling is kinda broken right now.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
      2·
      5 months ago

      I blame phone companies for that. They’ve had the ability to block scam calls for a while but haven’t because it makes them money. Now people don’t even bother answering their phones anymore, especially if it’s an unknown number, so the only people who respond to polls aren’t representative of the population.

        • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          As far as I’m aware, there is a website that allows you to sign up to stop receiving these calls in the US. It’s worked for me and I never get sales calls anymore.

          Sign up here

          • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            Thanks for the reminder! Says I did it in 2018, but I registered again along with my 2nd number and my wife’s. We shall see…

        • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
          11·
          5 months ago

          I think I’ll blame the people who actually have the capability of doing something about it. They could have done this years ago.

          • Clent@lemmy.world
            1·
            5 months ago

            I don’t think the phone companies have the power you imagine them to have.

            If the entire global was controlled by a single entity they could stop this but that’s not the reality. There are tons of gateway providers that you have never heard of.

            This is literally the job of the FCC and they are already working on it but it takes time to herd this many cats. The big ones have already done their part.

            • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
              01·
              5 months ago

              Phone companies could easily prevent call spoofing which would make it easy for them to block known scam numbers. They have chosen not to.

              • Clent@lemmy.world
                1·
                5 months ago

                You didn’t read anything I said or anything in the link.

                You do not understand the problem and willfully do so.

      • mkwt@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        And really people are not making phone calls nearly as much as they used to. The pollsters need to find a reasonably unbiased method to sample people on other communication methods.

        • MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 months ago

          I get texts about polls but I would rather jump on a live grenade than answer an unsolicited communication, be that a text or anything else, and I’m sure I’m not the only one.

      • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeEnglish
        0·
        5 months ago

        my phone will actually tell me ahead of time if it thinks the call is spam, a scam, or if it’s a business what kind of business it’s likely to be. but yeah, still don’t answer anything that isn’t in my contacts or from my local area code. text me or leave a voicemail. or don’t, I don’t really wanna talk to anybody as a rule anyway.