So. Is Gilbert the next big capitalist from Michigan to have a decent shot at the Presidency after Romney? Push comes to shove, 4 or five years down the line, is our Gilbert going to reap the rewards of a city on the up and up? Are property values in the neighborhoods and reenergized cores in Mid and downtown going to be a partial result of his putting his money where his mouth is?

Seems to me he would have a pretty good shot at it from both the élitist and the populist points of view.