In the 2008 cycle, Michigan became a 16.4% Democrat state, as blue then as we view New Jersey or Washington today. How many new registrations, even with a turbo-charged Detroit metro ready to vote Obama, did Michigan add for that cycle? 306,717

The boring, tired Romney-Obama matchup the next cycle found Michigan with 16,211 fewer registered voters, because no one gave a damn about that race, even though people paying attention noticed a 7-point Republican lurch, setting Michigan up to be in play with another move like that in 2016. Michigan had a roll 59,502 larger for the Trump-Clinton matchup.

None of this matters, because Jocelyn Benson presided over an elections system that inflated itself by 547,470 registrations ahead of the 2020 quasi-election, which were used to stuff mail-in ballot requests, shotgun blast said requests out to known fictitious addresses that we now know about thanks to the Muskegon County reveal, give that data to paid activists in charge of harvesting the ballots, and make sure damn near all of them get “returned.”