Thanks to join home for joining us.

I'm really happy to have you here.

So we have two major parties in our country.

A week from today, we're going to have the first votes

in one of those parties and the Republican Party

to decide who the winner will be of their contested primary

for the Republican Party's presidential nominating contest this year.

And you know all that, but it's worth just sort of going back to brass tax, I think, for a second.

In a two-party system, each party is important, right?

In a two-party system, the relative strength, the relative skill, the organizational capacity, the financial status, the size, the

health of each party is at least a little bit important in every single state in the country.

Even in states that are dominated by one party or the other, the

health and the capacity of each party matters. It's particularly crucial of

course in swing states though, where one party doesn't dominate in the

places where it's likely to be a close race between the Republican nominee and

the Democratic nominee and the general election this fall it is particularly

important how healthy the state parties are on both sides.

And the battleground states, the swing states these days, it's a pretty familiar list states like you know Arizona and Georgia

Pennsylvania Michigan a few others. Given all that though here's today's pop quiz

here's today's actually kind of a hard question question about those

politics. Is there a Republican party in Michigan right now?

And if so, what is it and how do you find it?

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