Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm
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In 2006, Michigan voters re-elected Granholm to a second term. Her admirers praise her intelligence, charisma and centrist instincts. She is, according to The New Republic, "an ideal spokesperson for Democratic politics in the early twenty-first century."
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