Sanders Struggles to Keep His Campaign Afloat in Michigan

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont needs a very strong showing in Michigan’s Democratic primary Tuesday night to keep alive his faint hopes of somehow overtaking former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton for the presidential nomination – but the political gods appear to be arrayed against him. After taking a beating from Clinton in South Carolina and a string of other southern states with large African American populations, Sanders eyed Michigan, a major Midwestern industrial stat