Disgruntled progressive activists and organizations have embarked on a campaign to push voters to mark themselves “uncommitted” in protest of Biden’s stance on the Israel-Hamas War.
With 95% of the expected vote tabulated, 70.5% of voters backed Biden while 19.0% went uncommitted, according to a tabulation by The Associated Press.
In Minnesota, more than 45,000 marked themselves “uncommitted” — a number greater than the margin by which Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in the state in 2016.
It’s easy to send a protest vote in March. Let’s see how everyone feels in October.
Ok Hillary…
Some of us remember the danger of running a bad candidate and telling voters:
If you don’t like the candidate, dont vote
We need candidates like 08 Obama, or even 92 Clinton.
At least give voters a charismatic neoliberal that can trick people into voting for them.
Or Bernie, 16. Dude got stolen from us. Never forget that the DNC is not a democratic body.
Nowadays, Bernie is to the far right as to the lot of you lefties.
With effort, a protest vote might help get Donald Trump elected. Donald Trump literally stated that Israel should finish the job.
A primary protest vote won’t help him get elected, no.
Depends on how many of those protest voters during the primary decide to stay home on election day.
Anyone willing to turn out for a protest vote in a primary is unlikely to be someone who sits out a general.
That’s great, hopefully he gets the message. Exactly how we should use primaries. That being said, the people not voting for Biden in the fall are ushering in a dictatorship that among other things will result in substantially more deaths in Palestine. Send a message, but stopping the GOP has to be the top priority.
Either Biden gets this message now or he will lose in fall. That’s up to Biden to decide.
It is overwhelmingly clear that this is going to lose him the election if he continues. This is his choice not the voters.
It is literally 100% up to the voters who gets elected president
Have you forgotten the 2000 election so soon?
I’ve spent a decent chunk of time “influencing without authority” in a corporate environment and learned very quickly that people won’t do things that they are not incentivized to do.
The “story” you are telling is weak as fuck. You are effectively saying that Biden can safely ignore primaries because the rest of the party will vote for him anyway.
If you want the lesser evil to improve or be replaced, you need to let the greater evil win. Otherwise, why would the lesser evil actually change?
you need to let the greater evil win.
The weak thing here is the person advocating on behalf of the greater evil. I’m amazed you were able to type that without immediately rethinking your position. Did you read it first?
We can still overthrow the greater evil after. The point is that Biden needs an incentive to change. If he doesn’t actually lose, there is no impact to him. He has no reason to change.
Jesus Christ dude open a history book. That ain’t how that story goes.
