party, to decide who the winner will be of their contested primary for the republican party s presidential nominated contest this year. and you know all that, but it s worth just sort of going back to brass tacks for a second. in a two party system, each party is important, right? in a two party system, the relative strength, skill, the organizational capacity, the financial status, the size, the health of each party is at least a little bit important in every single state in the country, even in states that are dominated by one party or the other, the health and the capacity of each party matters. it s particularly crucial in swing states, though, where one party doesn t dominate, and in places where it s likely gonna be a close race between the republican nominee and the democratic nominee and the general election this fall, it is particularly important how healthy the state parties are on both sides. and the battleground states, the swing states these days, it s a pretty f
It s like arizona, georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, up few others. given all that, though, here is today s pop quiz. here s today s actually kind of hard question question about those politics. is there a republican party in michigan right now? and if so, what is it, and how do you find it? this is actually a hard question right now because if you go to m i gop.org, m i, for michigan, m i gop.org, which has long been the web address of the michigan republican party, m i gop.org, right now, here s what you find. here is their website. it s live right now, as we are looking at it. it s kind of a slick website, it has this video thing played in the back. but what is that we are banner running across the top? but that banner across the top says press release, a faction of state committee members