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The November 8 city election

by James Leonard

posted 11/3/2011

State and national politicians get a bye in odd-numbered years, but in Ann Arbor, half of the city council stands for election every November. Since the mid-2000s, when the city's last moderate Republicans switched parties, the November election has been pretty much a formality: the winner of the August Democratic primary has typically advanced unchallenged.

 
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