The ā€œuncommittedā€ vote in Michigan way outperformed expectations last night, reflecting Democratic unhappiness with Joe Bidenā€™s support for Israelā€™s brutal war. He should change course on Gaza immediately.

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    9 months ago

    No that is not true. Biden had two other opponents in this primary, so he wasnā€™t ā€œagainst literally No one.ā€

    And he won this state by a bigger margin in the last election compared to ā€œundecidedā€ voters in this primary.

    The constant goal post moving and dishonesty about this primary ahs been quite disgusting.

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      9 months ago

      two others

      Who didnā€™t get 100k votes. At best; 80k people specifically voted uncommitted in protest to Biden. And thatā€™s generously subtracting the ā€œnormalā€ 20k, despite the feeling of exit pollsters that no one who voted so, were not doing so in protest.

      bigger margin

      A margin that has almost certainly gotten smaller. 50k votes is practically nothing. Therefore itā€™s not dishonest to say that Michigan is in serious doubt.

      dishonesty

      Whose being dishonest? Are you seriously saying that Bidenā€™s actions on Gaza arenā€™t hurting his election?

      Edit: you can see the shrinking margin by looking at how many people voted and where:

      the Republican had 1,104,385 people voting, with Trump getting 753,003 votes.

      Democrats had 762,697 people voting, with Biden getting 618,426, and uncommitted getting 101,100 votes (81.1% and 13.3%)

      Itā€™s a bad expectation to say there wonā€™t be more people voting in the regular election, but if we use it as a bellwesther, we can soundly say that Biden is most likely to loose Michigan. Particularly because history shows that republicans are more likely to fall in line than democrats.

      In- as Iā€™ve been saying for a while now- a repeat of ā€˜16. Where the only difference in rhetoric is that others are already blaming voters.