In such a split district, Michigan State University could decide whether House Republicans will be able to wield their majority to wreak havoc on the final two years of the Biden administration.
EAST LANSING, Michigan— As 50,000 students and their families milled about Michigan State University’s sprawling campus, with fall leaves crunching under their feet over homecoming weekend, Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin was pounding the pavement and calling for reinforcements.
College students are generally a notoriously fickle group of voters and historically a non-factor in East Lansing elections. That’s mostly due to a mix of students being registered to vote back home and a lapsed Republican-backed state law, which fell apart after a legal challenge from college Democrats led to a settlement with Democratic Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson in 2019 making it easier for students to vote.
Slotkin is literally banking on the Spartan students to come through for her, with her campaign borrowing a page from the Stacey Abrams playbook in Georgia by paying door knockers $18 per hour and student managers $25 per hour. “I didn’t know anything about these politicians,” she said after Slotkin’s Sunday rally outside of Shaw Hall.She said she had heard about the abortion ballot referendum—picking up bits and pieces through YouTube ads—but was “shocked” at how informative the rally was in terms of what’s at stake in November’s election, both at the federal and state level.
Older voters, such as Lee Griffin, a 78-year-old retired history teacher from Haslett, a town of about 19,000 in Slotkin’s district, arethan voters under 24, even more so than in presidential election years. As student canvassers dispersed across campus following the rally, Slotkin recalled an interaction she had with a non-voter earlier in the morning in Mason, Michigan, a town of about 8,000 some 15 minutes south of campus.
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