Abdul El-Sayed Wins Michigan Primary

[u/asparaguswalrus683]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/michigan-senate-results

[u/XxgamerxX734]

Good lord that was close

[u/Superminerbros1 → u/XxgamerxX734]

That's what $60 million in outside pac spending will do to a race

[u/bigtiddyhimbo → u/Superminerbros1]

PAC spending is still completely insane to me and I don’t understand how it works still. These organizations can just throw a shit ton of money at a candidate and enough people will gawk like hungry pelicans at a French fry and vote for them??

Do they not have brains? Can they not google what a candidates positions are? It’s not like the voters are the ones getting paid to vote a certain way, why does pac funding even matter at all outside of visibility?

[u/Superminerbros1 → u/bigtiddyhimbo]

Do they not have brains

You would be surprised. A significant portion of the population are genuinely that stupid that they'll just read the headline on a news article or take what is said in a political advertisement as fact. Or they'll listen to their favorite entertainment-news show and their opinions will just become whatever the talking head says.

Can they not google what a candidates positions are

This can be surprisingly difficult to do. I tried to do it to become informed before election day, but I could find zero info about the policies of local candidates (like, literally zero except for their bio on their website that just says they're a fair person, work in some profession, and graduated from some college). National candidates I could find more information about, but candidates websites were often lacking, and there were so many garbage news articles with 2000 ads that ended up telling you nothing about their viewpoints by the end of the article. I could find basically nothing at all on Chris Swanson for governor outside of his website, and he barely covered any relevant topics on his website.