Despite growing up in Detroit – and Rick Santorum’s anti-bailout speech to the Detroit Economic club – the most recent polls from Michigan have Mitt Romney trailing Santorum by an average of six points. Romney has tried to curb Santorum’s upswell by outspending him three to one in advertising. Given the indecisiveness of the race thus far, whether or not Romney takes Michigan could be a turning point in the nomination. Quinn Klinefelter, senior news editor at WDET in Detroit, gives us the latest from the state of Michigan.
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