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MICHIGAN: KERRY WINS HERE [Henry Payne 10/29 05:00 PM]

Michigan, the state's top political experts maintain, will go to John Kerry.

"Kerry will win Michigan," says Bill Ballenger, editor of Inside Politics, and one of Michigan's most revered election watchers. Polls back him up. Kerry has led in 37 of 40 Michigan polls taken since August. Among a flurry of last minute prognosticating, only a Detroit News poll last week put Bush ahead.

So why are Republicans still spending so much valuable time here just days before November 2?

Cheney is in today and Bush will be back in West Michigan Saturday. Ed Gillespie, GOP party chair, was in Detroit Friday making the newspaper rounds. In a visit to The Detroit News, Gillespie clearly felt his candidate has momentum.

But Republicans do have a worry. The Republican rumor mill is abuzz that CBS News plans another "October Surprise" attack on Bush this Sunday. And as the New York Times/CBS stolen weapons bombshell proves, these two media organizations will try anything to get their man Kerry in. . . .

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