All In’s Chris Hayes interviews Michael Moore in Michael’s home town, Flint, Michigan. Chris provides some teasers of Michael’s new movie: Fahrenheit 11/9; Michael gives a bit more background about the Flint situation, including an important historical marker: the 1936 Flint GM plant 45-day sit-down strike—the event which credibly can be considered the birth of the Middle Class; he ruminates on the Electoral College’s undemocratic underpinnings; and delilvers a jaw-dropping statistic on the number of Michigan voters who voted for public offices down to “Registrar of Deeds” and “Drain Commisioner”, yet did not cast a vote for the office of President of the United States.
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