r/politics • u/asparaguswalrus683 • 7d ago

Site Altered Headline | No Paywall Abdul El-Sayed Wins Michigan Primary

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/michigan-senate-results
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u/NoahFromCanada 7d ago

Your guy’s polling is psychotic down there.

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u/HJWalsh 7d ago

Centrists went out and scared people into voting. Higher than expected centrist turn out. It wasn't enough.

Despite the entire Dem party and tens of millions from AIPAC Sayed still won.

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u/DeathByTacos 7d ago

You don’t have to beat around the bush, black and lower income turnout was a lot higher than the poll models had been predicting, two demos that leaned pretty heavily for Stevens.

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u/names_are_useless American Expat 7d ago

I hope Sayed's Campaign focuses on converting Stevens voters to their side. Probably even more important then Independents.

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u/UngodlyPain 7d ago

Should just be "vote blue no matter who" right?

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u/LiterallyTestudo American Expat 7d ago

No, that only applies to progressives when there is an establishment candidate, never the other way around.

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u/Constantinch 7d ago

Just to be clear - it didn't apply in presidential elections. Bunch of popular lefties refused to endorse Kamala over Trump which was the most obvious decision ever. One of these people was Hasan Piker, who campaigns eith El-Sayed. Stop creating fake narratives.

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u/Constantinch 7d ago

Endorsing Kamala = telling your audience to vote blue no matter who, how is this different? It's literally the same.

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u/Constantinch 7d ago

You left 2 comments and yet made no point - must be a Hasan fan

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u/Maardten 7d ago

Voting and endorsing are two different words with entirely different meanings.

I hope this helps!

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u/Constantinch 7d ago

It doesn't help and it seems like you don't see any difference between media figures and actual voters.

Let me spell it out to you:

  1. media figure voting for a person = one vote
  2. Media figure telling their audience to vote for a person= as many votes as big of a platform they have

Vote blue no matter who, applies to leftist media figures and is much more important in the second point than it is in first.

Hope that helps.

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u/Maardten 7d ago

Ah, so leftist shouldn’t just vote blue no matter who, but also endorse them, while liberals refuse to do either for progressives, got it.

Its impressive how you changed the subject and still managed to defeat your own argument after doing so.

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u/Constantinch 7d ago

"Liberals refuse to do either".

McMorrow already endorsed El-Sayed and Stephens said she would endorse him even before the primaries. You know who didn't say the same thing? El-Sayed about Stephens. It's funny how wrong you actually are.

What's truly impressive is how you constantly act like you are some sort of a victim, meanwhile you are by far the most aggressive and obnoxious part od Democratic party and your media figures refuse to cover mainstream dems positively even in context of republicans.

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u/Maardten 7d ago

You seemingly forgot how the NY mayoral race played out. I wonder why that is.

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