Mitchell heads her political consulting and polling firm. She and two other Michigan Pioneers, Heinz Prechter and Paul Welday, organized “American Dreamers.” It seeks to drum up Bush contributions from minorities, who are an endangered species among the Pioneers’ ranks. Mitchell says she starts her Pioneer pitch with a soft putt, saying how personable Bush is and how much he cares about schools. If that fails, she pulls out her Michigan driver, saying, “If anything hurts the auto industry and kills it as [Gore] would like to, we are in some serious trouble here.”