Susan J. Demas: Proposal 1 could fail because voters don't trust government to fix our roads

When people vote "no" on Proposal 1 in a few short weeks -- and right now, that looks to be a healthy majority -- it won't be because most of them think our roads are great.

That's why the lack of support is so perplexing to editorial writers, Lansing insiders and politicians backing the plan. For them, it's all pretty simple:

If you think Michigan's roads are terrible, you must vote "yes."

But plenty of voters don't see it that way. There are a dizzying number of reasons why people are against this proposal, many of them contradictory. 

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Susan J. Demas: Here's one thing Americans agree on: The system is rigged against us

Thanksgiving is upon us, which often means fighting with friends and relatives over politics (and who gets the turkey leg).

In the past, I've found myself tangling with one gentleman who frequently declares that Obama's America is "No Country for Old Men."

He's not particularly interested in politics, but he fervently believes that Obamacare robs the rules-playing middle-class to help the unworthy poor (ignoring that my husband and I, two middle-class job creators, also benefit from using Obamacare).

He also thought former GE CEO Jack Welch made a fair point when he (erroneously) accused "these Chicago guys" of fixing economic indicators to help Obama get re-elected.

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Susan J. Demas: Angry undecided voters, not mythical moderates, will decide 2014 election

Undecided voters are mad as hell, and they're not going to take it anymore.

A variation of that line was, of course, immortalized by a rumpled newsman played by William Holden in the 1976 classic satire of American media, "Network."

Now as we're less than two weeks away from the 2014 election, anxiety reigns, and swing voters are frustrated. They've been vexed by Obamacare, then ISIS, and now Ebola.

This is bad news for Democrats, as the party that holds the White House usually gets thumped in the sixth year of a president's term. It's certainly looking like the Republicans will take the U.S. Senate.

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