Despite the tanking domestic auto industry and GOP candidate Dick DeVos' $40 million in campaign spending, Dem Governor Jennifer Granholm has edged out of trouble in the home stretch of her reelection campaign, CQ Politics reports. CQ has just changed its rating of her race from "No Clear Favorite" to "Leans Democratic." "Granholm notes that the auto industry’s problems and the state’s overreliance on the carmakers greatly predate her election as governor in 2002," CQ says. "She also contends that national economic factors — including policies pursued by the Republican Bush administration — have contributed to the state’s problems." It appears to be working. CQ's full analysis here.