Unless voters change their minds between now and next November, US Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) is headed for re-election, according to a poll released Sunday by WXYZ TV and the Detroit Free Press.
According to the poll, Stabenow leads former US Rep. Pete Hoekstra, 48-42 percent, and Clark Durant, 51-31 percent.
Stabenow, 61, was first elected to the US Senate in 2000, when she defeated incumbent US Sen. Spencer Abraham. The race was close, but she easily won re-election in a 2006 campaign against Michael Bouchard.
Prior to moving to the US Senate, she was a member of the US House of Representatives, to which she was first elected in 1996.
She also served as a member of the Michigan State Senate, Michigan House of Representatives and Ingham County Board of Commissioners.
"As chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and a member of the Senate Energy, Finance, and Budget Committees, she has a powerful and unique role to play in shaping our nation's manufacturing, health care, and agriculture policies, which are so critical to our future," she states in her official biography.
"At $15 trillion, Debbie Stabenow and Barack Obama's big-spending policies have not only put our generation into debt, but promised that our children and grandchildren will also inherit a massive federal debt," Hoekstra states on his website. "While the national debt multiplied, Debbie Stabenow voted for a $787 billion stimulus bill, supported the Senate's $2.5 trillion version of the health care bill, and abandoned her duties on the Budget Committee, meaning it has been over 925 days since the U.S. Senate has passed a budget. I will be a different kind of Senator. I will fight to pass a balanced budget, reduce government spending, eliminate senseless regulations, and help grow our economy."
Durant is former assistant to the president of Hillsdale College, a prominent university founded to turn out conservative leaders. He served in the Ronald Reagan presidential administration as chairman of the Legal Services Corporation Board.
"For starters, Clark believes we must rollback spending to responsible levels and halt any new programs," according to his campaign website. "This will be complimented by simplifying the tax code, reducing taxes, eliminating burdensome regulation that stifles economic growth, and developing tax incentives for innovation."
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