- 28 Feb 2024 18:03
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Which voter bloc could that be?
For comparison's sake, 10.5% voted "uncommitted" in the 2012 primary. And Biden won 81.14% compared to Obama's 89.31%, but with a far larger turnout.
Note that the objections by these Muslims, Arabs in general and also far-leftists have nothing to do with local politics.
Those 100,000 uncommitted votes? The vast majority voted uncommitted for the same reason 20,000 voted the same in 2012, and this is largely a result of the greater interest in this primary if only because many want to stop Trump.
late wrote:So we can count politics as something you've not done yet.
They used to say all politics is local. Newt changed that.
But in this case, it was voters demonstrating their support. There were prob several reasons, but among them is a silent rebuff of Muslim objections, a equally quiet rejection of the craziness in that state, and, of course, the aversion to Trump. (There is an identical, if less sane, version on the Right).
"But then, self-appointed augurs that we are, we start looking more closely, digging through the remains of the contest and holding things up to the light. In fairness, many observers, including many in the media, were doing this before the polls closed, announcing loudly what they expected to find in Michigan’s slimy entrails. (This is an augury reference, not a function of my having gone to Ohio State.) That’s what I mean when I say that it’s hard to differentiate between finding something important and the importance of finding something.
One thing that people are seizing upon in Michigan is the fact that 1 in 8 Democratic primary voters opted to vote for “uncommitted” rather than the incumbent president. The organizers of the effort to send a message to Biden — generally about his approach to the war in Gaza — stated that they hoped to get 10,000 people to vote in that way. They ended up getting more than 100,000."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/28/biden-michigan-primary-trump/
For comparison's sake, 10.5% voted "uncommitted" in the 2012 primary. And Biden won 81.14% compared to Obama's 89.31%, but with a far larger turnout.
Note that the objections by these Muslims, Arabs in general and also far-leftists have nothing to do with local politics.
Those 100,000 uncommitted votes? The vast majority voted uncommitted for the same reason 20,000 voted the same in 2012, and this is largely a result of the greater interest in this primary if only because many want to stop Trump.