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The home stretch of Michigans governor race runs through Detroit, where voters have endured takeover and bankruptcy, and where Democrat Mark Schauer hopes to ambush the man who oversaw them, Republican incumbent Rick Snyder.

Schauer, 53, a former Battle Creek congressman, has stayed within striking distance in polls, accusing Snyder of shortchanging schools and cutting business taxes at retirees expense. Snyder, 56, counters that he put the state and its biggest city on sounder footing.

Whichever man wins, the withered auto manufacturing capital will play a central role. For Snyder, it provides evidence of a challenge tackled. For Schauer, its a well of support.

If Schauer can get over 200,000 votes in Detroit, he has a chance, said Democratic state senator Virgil Smith Jr., during a neighborhood appearance where Mayor Mike Duggan introduced Schauer to voters. The energy is there.

That sum is 38 percent of Detroits mostly Democratic registered voters, a tall turnout order in a non-presidential election. It happened twice since 2002 for Democrat Jennifer Granholm, Michigans first female governor. Now, Republicans command all of state government. Schauer says changing that situation is a matter of mobilization.

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder spent almost $6 million of his own on his 2010 campaign. Close

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder spent almost $6 million of his own on his 2010 campaign.

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Michigan Governor Rick Snyder spent almost $6 million of his own on his 2010 campaign.

Look, were a blue state, he said at a campaign stop last week in Dearborn, a Detroit suburb. President Obama won here two years ago by nine percentage points.

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Road to Victory Over Snyder in Michigan Runs Through Detroit