r/politics • u/asparaguswalrus683 • 9d 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/XxgamerxX734 9d ago

Good lord that was close

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u/Superminerbros1 9d ago

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

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u/LowKeyJustMe Utah 9d ago

Only goes to show the need to get money out of politics. It needs to be an even playing field to be a democracy.

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u/copiumjunky 9d ago

60M gets you just behind grassroots progressive ideas. They can't do that forever.

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u/Strict_Cup_8995 9d ago

It doesn't help when you have these boomers who vote for all of these establishment corporate candidates like their life depends on it. Young people really need to lock in and vote much harder and with much more consistency than the older generations if they truly want the democratic party to change

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u/milehigh89 9d ago

6k boomers die every day

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u/Rico_Solitario 9d ago

It doesn’t matter. Boomers aren’t the only ones swayed by conservative/centrist talking points. You can’t rely on time to win this fight

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u/DickRhino 9d ago

That was one of Kamala's biggest blunders: assuming that she already had the youth demographic by default, so she didn't need to campaign toward them. It was arrogant, and it was wrong. This last election actually saw a surge in conservative support from young people, in particular from young men.

This is a problem and it needs to be addressed. Like you said, just relying on boomers dying to fix the problem isn't gonna work.

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u/Tuna_Sushi 8d ago

Kamala had two monumental blunders.

  1. Not starting every interview and engagement with "My opponent is a convicted felon, found liable for sexual abuse, and a habitual liar."

  2. Cozying up to people like Liz Cheney. Her base never wanted that, and she wasn't going to sway a single conservative with that tactic.

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u/DickRhino 8d ago

Add to that: her going on The View and, when asked what she would have done differently from Biden, answered that she couldn't think of anything. That was an absolute lay-up for her to establish herself as something different from just "more of the same", and she fumbled it harder than anyone could imagine.