Rep. John Dingell has served in Congress for 55 years, and for 22 years prior to that, his father occupied the same House seat.He has been one of the most powerful Democratic House members of this generation, serving as ranking Democrat and then chairing the Energy and Commerce committee until unseated by Henry Waxman last year. He is also apparently in deep, deep electoral trouble: A new independent poll has the dean of the U.S. House, Rep. John Dingell, trailing his Republican opponent, Rob Steele, by 4 percentage points. The automated phone survey of 300 people in the 15th Congressional District showed Steele getting 43.8% of the vote. Dingell, a Dearborn Democrat and the longest-serving member of Congress, got 39.5%. About 11% were undecided. The gap is within the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 5.6 percentage points. The poll was conducted Monday. Dingell's campaign said the survey - conducted by the Rossman Group of Lansing and Team TelCom - is a Republican...(Read Full Post)