Slotkin? The MI Slotkin? Are we sure? /s

That seems pretty hype tbh. Wouldn’t have guessed she would be one of the centrists to change her mind

EDIT: typo

I too might work with the president if he was a fundamentally different person than he is. Fair enough I guess?

Well since the attack ads were primarily focused on his name, religion, and ethnicity, I don’t think we should accept that as a rationale. I found myself unable to skip them when they played, and holy shit were they bad. His ability to attract those attack ads was almost entirely because he offended AIPAC and because he is Muslim. They tried some other tactics early on (Medicare, ‘fake doctor’, etc), but the last few weeks has been almost nothing but attacks on his identity.

Okay, I don’t really agree that having special interests spend against you makes you a weak candidate. Especially when that money doesn’t lead to your loss. If someone puts a 5 foot high hurdle in front of you, you are not weaker if you fail to clear it by the same margin as the runner next to you clears their 3 foot hurdle.

In fact going into the next race without knowing what the hurdle height will be, I’m more likely to pick the runner who cleared 5 feet. You can’t rely on your positions not attracting outside opponents, but you can rely on conservatives to make accomplishing anything good into a fight. I would rather have candidates ready for that fight than ones who are trying to avoid it by triangulating their positions to not offend conservatives.

Two things to counter that argument. First, the advertising blitz against Abdul El-Sayed was insane. I have never seen so many attack ads, and a lot of money was spent in the primary and the general to bury Abdul. By contrast Benson barely got mentioned.

Second, the John James factor. This is John James third statewide office run, and third loss. He hasn’t come within 100k of winning. Rogers lost to Slotkin by only ~30k

This victory speech is delicious

Sounds like yet more proof stock prices should never influence public policy

Seems logical since he landed the starring role in one

Love this idea! We could all always use some more resources for learning Open Source

I think there are two big things to look at here that complicate this. First lots of polls are fake, bad, or intentionally misleading. In this case the polling place is SRSS, which currently is advertising an AI audiobook comparison. Considering there have been high profile fake AI based polls lately, I’m not willing to blindly heed this one.

Second, is that centrist Democrats are doing their best to sabotage Michigan. Voters who didn’t participate in the primary and who haven’t been watching Stevens vote with Trump are seeing a wave of editorials and other articles from ostensibly ‘left-leaning’ outlets attacking El-Sayed.

I think Michigan voters are smart enough to see through this, but it would certainly help if media outlets didn’t seem so determined to make it close when it shouldn’t be. Other strong Michigan candidates like McKinney will help make sure Dems turnout in November, but until then ignore polls, work hard, and don’t fall for the editorial lies

A brief scroll through the authors other articles shows what an utter waste of time this is