Since 1964, when he first went to Washington, the only elections U.S. Rep. John Conyers has had to work about were the two times he ran for mayor of Detroit. He looked comically out of place and failed to make the primaries.
But this year Conyers, 82, is operating in a newly redrawn congressional district that has more moderate voters.
The new district is still heavily Democratic, but only about half of it includes his current district.
Should Conyers lose, it would be the first time in 57 years that the state has been without an African American in Congress. And it would be the first time since 1887 that Michigan hasn't had a Detroiter in the House. BM
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