"Expectations setting can really take one’s eyes off the 50 percent-plus-one nature of American elections. El-Sayed was outspent and had the bulk of the establishment against him, and he won." But the polling was so bad it almost becomes disinformation, blasted out by the media. It's concerning.

Progressives Make Major Gains in Michigan - The American Prospect

Though Abdul El-Sayed didn’t win by as much as anticipated, it was a strong night. Now the proposition about progressives in swing seats will be tested.

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Seeing a version of a new stump, and man there’s a lot of material on Florida Man Mike Rogers. And yes, it IS about Trump, what a threat he is, and you should run against him at every turn. Goes for all Ds.

Now the "outside money" part is going to become VERY tricky. Stay tuned.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 4h ago

Schumer/Gillibrand on @abdulelsayed.bsky.social's nomination: "Democrats are united by a common purpose: putting a check on Donald Trump by defeating his Republican enablers and taking back the Senate. We look forward to working with Abdul and Democrats across Michigan to win this seat in November."

And there's the AP. They have a nice page w/demos here: apnews.com/projects/ele... Oh, and bye Shri! Congrats McKinney!

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4h ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Abdul El-Sayed wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan.

Speaking of the socialism, it seems that, for the most part, voters are happy to raise their own taxes for quality of life issues. We passed yet another one in GR, and I can't remember the last time we said no. Doing a very quick scroll, we loves us some taxes here in West MI.

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Freep going with these two "NBC called the race for El-Sayed shortly before 2:30 a.m. on Aug. 5 with most of the vote in and DDHQ called the race shortly before 9 a.m."

Detroit Free Press@freep.com · 5h ago

BREAKING: Abdul El-Sayed wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, reports say 📷 by Robin Buckson, Reuters and Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press

This whole happy circus now moves on to WI and MN, and gee, I suddenly don’t trust polling at all. Already seeing excuses being made, and yes they’ve been off before (Bernie 2016), but I can’t recall anything like this. What was it, five different pollsters off by 10 pts in the final week? Really?

Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.

Both him and Stevens immediatley trained their fire on Rogers, and yes, that was good to see.

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 6h ago

This is wise, and hopefully his supporters and the supporters of his opponent will all model his behavior, rally together, and try to win the seat.

Throw the advertiser-driven media on this pile as well.

David Kaib@davidkaib.bsky.social · 7h ago

The entire Republican Party, and a chunk of the Democratic Party, have a direct interest in convincing you that conservative wins are a mandate and anything else is not.

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Guardian System (She/Her)@kodochara.bsky.social · 12h ago

Progressive Trans woman Joanna Whaley appears set to win her primary against her transphobic opponent, and to become the first trans person elected to the Michigan state legislature!

Now I’ll always wonder if we could have taken out Scholten. I don’t know a soul who likes her, quite the opposite in fact. But I bet most will “come home” in the end.

Raw numbers looks like Ds had nearly 500k more ballots cast than Rs. Roughly 1.5M in both D Senate and Gov, Rs had 929K in Gov. And apparently your home for progress in Michigan is Kent County. Beat Washtenaw by 1% on Abdul totals. Wild. 😳

If betting markets are being driven by those polls? Hello? Good god, stay away from them. 😬

Better be right about this, because so far everybody has been wrong about everything. There will be words. Especially to pollsters. 😡

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 12h ago

Okay then! www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

When you thought the race would be called 8 minutes after polls closed.

WTF Muskegon and Marquette. Not huge numbers in either county, and 3 hours?

The Tigers have scored 8+ runs in 6 consecutive games, tied for the longest such streak in franchise history also done in …. 1927 and 1922 !!!

LOL. We don't need no pitching. #Tigers

This is going to suck so bad. Three months of absolute nonsense on tap. Need new hobbies.

Katherine Dailey@kdailey.bsky.social · 15h ago

James makes fighting socialism the center of his victory speech: "Michigan is on fire. I’ve always run toward the fire. This November, the choice will be clear. We offer freedom, they offer socialism. We offer change, they offer control. We offer common sense, they offer crazy."

Well, if this keeps up, then the polling was way off and I don't have to listen to them anymore. Grand Rapids, 2nd coolest place outside Ann Arbor. Imagine that. Abdul up 64-31. Scumbag Skaggs going down in the 29th. Happy to see that.

Ohhh, it's Bouchard's kid. Well that was confusing.

Detroit Free Press@freep.com · 16h ago

Decision Desk HQ and the Associated Press called the 10th District primary for the Oakland County sheriff's son on Aug. 4.

Tightened up quite a bit as rural votes are coming in. Kent County has been stuck at 20% for quite some time. C'mon people.

Time for baseball. ⚾

State Sen. Jeremy Moss wins Dem primary for safely blue #MI11, Haley Stevens' seat. He'd be Michigan's first LGBTQ member of Congress.

Decision Desk HQ@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · 17h ago

Decision Desk HQ projects Rashida Tlaib wins the Michigan US House 12 Democratic Primary #DecisionMade: 9:07 PM EDT

LIVE: Watch party for Democratic Senate candidate El-Sayed A watch party for Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed as voters head to the polls in the high-stakes primary election. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bMP...

LIVE: Watch party for Democratic Senate candidate El-Sayed

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WOOD already reporting results using AP numbers. 1% in: Abdul 55, Stevens 39. And we're off...

Aug. 4, 2026, Michigan primary

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Yilber has been in one game this year. Got two outs, gave up 7 runs. His ERA is 94.50. I am not making this up.

MLB Transaction Bot@transactionbot.bsky.social · 19h ago

Detroit Tigers recalled RHP Yilber Díaz from Toledo Mud Hens.

After big headlines about DOJ monitors, the DOJ shorted the monitors by 5 teams. 🙄 "Those monitors have been spotted at the locations that received notice, although there are fewer than expected, according to Kim Bush, director of communications and policy for the Attorney General’s Office."

Voters, DOJ election monitors take to the polls on Election Day

Michigan voters are at the polls for the primary election today, choosing who will make the November ballot for the U.S. Senate race, Michigan gubernatorial race, state legislative races and more, …

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