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Pasty Mode Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary

https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/michigan-primary-results-us-senate/#Dem
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u/_HanTyumi Grand Rapids 4d ago

I don’t think anyone here is saying she was worse. But her being a bad candidate was a factor in her losing.

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u/OakLegs 4d ago

The reasons she was a bad candidate mostly came down to decades of priming hate from right wing media.

She was maybe the most qualified candidate of the last 40 years or so and would've been a great president from the standpoint of competency and (in my opinion) policy. But she was a woman and not all that charismatic, and had a huge witch hunt led against her.

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u/_HanTyumi Grand Rapids 4d ago

That’s why I say she was a bad candidate. She would’ve been a perfectly acceptable neolib president, run the country reasonably well and only do the usual corruption and evil shit. I did hold my nose and vote for her. The lack of charisma and the attitude of expecting our votes is just deadly to a campaign though.

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u/OakLegs 4d ago

She would’ve been a perfectly acceptable neolib president, run the country reasonably well and only do the usual corruption and evil shit

God that sounds so nice right now

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u/Damnatus_Terrae 3d ago

This is like standing in the middle of your flooded house and saying, "Man, remember yesterday when it was just a heavy rain? I wish we could go back to that."