The “uncommitted” vote in Michigan way outperformed expectations last night, reflecting Democratic unhappiness with Joe Biden’s support for Israel’s brutal war. He should change course on Gaza immediately.

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    Biden gets 80% of the vote = political suicide Trump gets 60% of the vote = massive victory.

    ?🤔?

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      I don’t think people saying Biden getting 80% is bad are saying Trump’s 60 is good.

      At least not without being trumpers.

      Maybe the media could do with ragging on trumps lack of decisive wins.

      Prior to this, Biden had been primarying at like 95%

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        It was mainly a media critique. For example This was how The NY Times covered it. Trump’s 68% of the vote is “coasting”

        a title from the yew york times framing trumps win as coasting but biden as protest votes hurting biden

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      It’s the usual doom and gloom disinformation posts. Lemmy is becoming just as bad as Reddit for shills and bad actors.

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    uncommitted barely got more of a percentage of the vote than they normally do. is it “political suicide” because they got more than 100k votes? for every vote uncommitted got, biden got 6. if 100,000 people voted in the primary and we had the same vote distribution, uncommitted would have 13,000 votes.

    that’s not political suicide. political suicide would be if uncommitted got enough of a threshold to win delegates from the statewide pool. as it ended up last night, they only pulled 2 delegates out of 117 on offer, those 2 coming from one congressional district.

    people who are pushing that story are trying to sew democratic chaos and discontent when the democratic party is very much in array.

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    This is a joke article. Biden got the traditional vote percentage for an incumbent. Let’s talk about how Trump loses at least 35%-45% every single primary.