Because she was the only major candidate on the ballot in Michigan, Hillary Clinton’s main rival was the number 50. Getting less than half of the vote would have been a major humiliation for Clinton — and a boost for Barack Obama, who did not campaign here. But Clinton got a comfortable 55 percent, and the map below shows that Macomb County (the more blue-collar of the two major counties in suburban Detroit) gave her a sizable advantage; she got 64 percent of the vote there and roughly a quarter of her statewide raw-vote margin over the dreaded 50 percent level. Flint’s Genesee County and industrial Monroe County also gave her strong support. As in New Hampshire, Clinton seems to have done best in white working-class communities.
The "uncommitted" (i.e., Obama) vote beat Clinton in Ann Arbor’s Washtenaw County and in three rural counties in the far north. In Detroit’s Wayne County, Clinton got 50.07 percent of the vote (according to complete but preliminary returns). Exit polls suggested that a large majority of black voters went for the "uncommitted" line, but they weren’t enough to take the state’s largest county away from Clinton.
