Obama to Campaign for Peters, Schauer in Metro Detroit

President Barack Obama is coming to the Detroit metro on Nov. 1, three days before the general election, to campaign for Democrats in key races.

The White House and the Michigan Democratic Party didn’t say in the announcement where the campaign event for U.S. Senate nominee Gary Peters and gubernatorial nominee Mark Schauer will take place, the Detroit Free Press reports.

The president is the latest of several high-profile political figures to visit Michigan. First Lady Michelle Obama visited earlier this month, and former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton have also stumped for candidates.

On the Republican side, Mitt Romney, the party’s 2012 nominee for president, has campaigned for Gov. Rick Snyder and Terri Lynn Land, the Republicans’ nominee for U.S. Senate. So have New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky will keynote an Oakland County GOP dinner next week.

A recent poll conducted by EPIC-MRA for the Free Press and WXYZ-TV, Channel 7, showed Peters leading Land, 45 percent to 34 percent. The same poll showed Snyder leading Schauer, 47 percent to 39 percent.

The poll’s margin of error is 4 percent.

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