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Wednesday, November 06, 2002
Jennifer Granholm (D)
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Canadian-born Jennifer Granholm had little difficulty converting her popularity as the state's attorney general into a convincing victory in her bid to become Michigan's first female governor and the first Democrat to win the office since term-limited Gov. John Engler took office in 1991. Granholm's experience will come in handy as she takes over a state seeing its largest number of new faces in government in more than sixty years. The teen beauty queen who grew up in California and graduated from Harvard Law School openly courted foreign-born voters at the end of a year in which federal and state anti-terror investigations of Middle Eastern immigrants more than once turned the nation's eye toward Michigan. She also benefited from strong labor union support and apathy toward her Republican opponent, Lt. Gov. Dick Posthumus, among GOP voters.
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