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[Cal Carpenter]

1. I think this poll is hooey

and as someone who lives in Michigan and talks politics half the day every day due to the nature of my work (in a heavily Democratic area) I barely hear anyone talking about this aspect of the primary. Certainly not like all of these massive threads on DU. FTR I've never posted about Whitmer or El-Sayed on DU, and where I stand on it is irrelevant - I barely even click on all these threads about the MI GOV primary because it seems so strange.

What's even weirder is that just a few weeks ago I did see several comments on DU writing El-Sayed off as irrelevant, not a chance to win, etc. Now he is suddenly so important that in this vital election year with hundreds of races around the country there are several threads about this particular race on GD's front page all the time. Wth?

On DU and Twitter this may seem like a huge deal. Here on the ground in Michigan where Michigan Dems live and vote? Not so much. People are talking about policy differences between Whitmer and El-Sayed and the weirdness that is Shri. That is all.

[Nanjeanne]

3. Thanks for a realistic perspective from someone in Michigan!

[wonkwest]

6. Bernie Sanders endorsed him

A lot of the threads you're seeing are about the people Sanders endorsed. It's all very thinly-veiled. As you said, hundreds of races happening all over the country, yet somehow this is all vitally important, to the tune of excessive posts with hundreds of replies.

DU has a very strange anti-Left bend to it that I find disconcerting. I'm just trying to stay away from the stuff at the moment.

I think pulling the party towards the Left is a good thing. We've been a rightward drift for the past 30 years thanks to right-wing radicalism. I don't think we're quite in the place where Sanders or Cortez would have us be. But we'll never get there if we don't start planting the seeds now. That, however, is not an endorsement of every tactic of every candidate. I think El-Sayed overreached.

I just find other things to post about. If this is anti-Bernie Underground, I mean, I guess. If that's what people want to do. I'm simply going to focus on November for now. No room in this for hating on each other at this point.

[emulatorloo]

7. FWIW we are surrounded on DU by left-liberals and progressives. DU isn't "anti-left"

because the majority of us are on the left.

Appreciate what you said about Unity! Thank you!

[Nanjeanne]

2. I approve of Abdul El-Sayed's positive campaign for the people in Michigan - and ultimately for me.

Where's that choice?

This is just bizarre.

[MrsCoffee]

5. Whatever. He will lose by a landslide using the OR book of divisive politics.

Too bad someone doesn’t tell them to stop.

[Nanjeanne]

10. Whatever. Exactly. Unity - fuck it.

[Kaleva]

4. There seems to be a concentrated effort here in using this campaign to create division

For those of us who actually live in the state, I don't get the impression that what's being said is much of a deal.

[oberliner]

8. Is this being posted as an illustration of a push poll?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. No. Why would you suggest that ?

I'm not as acquainted with artifice as other members of our community.