Everyone knows the Democratic Primary is about as important as an ASB election.
The DNC will run who they want to run.
I just hope it doesn't have repercussions in the general.
EDIT: Oh, it was only 13%? That's actually something of a relief. Stuck here in the Fediverse (and in a rural area where fellow Democrats are rare as unicorns) I was ready to hear 40% or something terrifying.
Considering that 1) they started the campaign late, 2) that’s enough votes for biden to lose the state in the general and 3) it’s only to get worse as the Gaza Genocide continues;
Yeah, I don’t think you should be breathing a sigh of relief. Especially after this straight up bullshit of “we’ll have a ceasefire next week!” … and “next Monday!!” Followed by Israel doubling down on it.
This is a breakdown of the votes by county I think 13% is the average but most places were around 10% reaching as high as 17% which isn't something to scoff at.
Apparently the goal was to get 10k+ uncommitted votes and they got well over that, a pale comparison to the 200k in 2008 when Obama wasn't on the ballet in 2008.
Out of the 8.2 million voters, I had read that 47% lean Democrat only 761k voted. (I'm pretty sure if you're not a registered Democrat you can't vote in the primary) but I can't find information on how many of the total amount of people that could vote did. If of those 47% could there would be 3.8 million total votes whatever which way in the primary. And Biden got 617k.
https://mvic.sos.state.mi.us/VoterCount/Index
So extrapolating out
Biden - 617,000 16.24%
Uncommitted - 100,000 2.63%
Williamson - 22,797 0.6%
Phillips - 20,459 0.54%
Didn't vote - 3,039,000 79.99%
I know these numbers are taking some liberties but it's really just to show that a lot of people just didn't vote. Which I take to mean they just didn't care to and a lot of those could be seen as uncommitted.
In 2020 there were almost twice as many people that voted in the primary.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Michigan_Democratic_presidential_primary
I mean, 14% isn't something to scoff at either. I only meant that I was prepared for much more of a crisis scenario to come out of this.
As it stands, a 40% increase in uncommitted votes compared to the last time an incumbent ran is bad, but it's not as bad as I feared, especially considering all the other issues swirling around Biden at the moment.
I know these numbers are taking some liberties but it’s really just to show that a lot of people just didn’t vote. Which I take to mean they just didn’t care to and a lot of those could be seen as uncommitted.
Civic understanding in this country is fucking terrible. A good number of them, I'd wager, aren't even aware there's a primary on.
It seems insane to those of us who follow politics at all, but having spoken to some people, the surprise is... often genuine. Politics is marginal as an interest for most people in this country.
Thank God so many democrats are pro genocide, otherwise a trump presidency would be unavoidable! This is a primary, this is literally THE place to protest vote. This does nothing to help trump win. You're just a liberal who's salty people don't wanna support genocide as hard as you do
