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When the polls closed on February 27 for the 2024 Michigan Democratic primary, more than 100,000 voters cast their ballots as “uncommitted.” Usually, those votes would have gone to President Joe Biden. “Michigan, a critical state in the general election and a key component of the Democratic coalition, is becoming a battleground where voters are expressing their disappointment and demanding a change in policy,” the uncommitted movement’s website states. Then a week later on Super Tuesday, thousands of votes in North Carolina, Massachusetts and Minnesota also came in uncommitted on the Democratic side. Naturally, the question becomes, why are these...

A new op-ed from The Daily Beast discussed President Joe Biden’s Super Tuesday performance and how the 19 percent in “uncommitted” voters in Minnesota could spell trouble come November. “Why Minnesota’s ‘Uncommitted’ Vote Is a Real Threat to Biden’s Re-Election,” headlined the article from J. Patrick Coolican. “Despite no money and a bare-bones, last-minute organization, the ‘Uncommitted’ line pulled nearly 19 percent, as progressive voters sought to send a message to Biden that he needs to change his policy toward Israel and its ongoing war in Gaza if he’s to earn their vote,” wrote Coolican.

resident Joe Biden could face growing backlash over his support for aid to Israel as efforts to get Democrats to vote ‘uncommitted’ in the presidential primaries ramp up heading into Super Tuesday when fifteen states and one territory hold contests next week. It comes after the president received fierce condemnation from some Democrats in Michigan where more than 101,000 voters selected ‘uncommitted’ rather than cast a ballot for the president in the state’s primary as Israel wages war in Gaza. While the Democratic presidential primary is not considered competitive with a sitting president, the vote in Michigan served as a...

President Joe Biden came in second place in Michigan’s Democrat primary in Dearborn to the ballot option “uncommitted,” underscoring his deep unpopularity with the predominantly Muslim and Arab American voter base in the community. The city of Dearborn’s election results show that “uncommitted” landed 6,432 votes, or 57 percent of the city’s total. It earned nearly 2,000 more votes than Biden at 4,526, which is 40 percent. The result in Dearborn – “home to the largest Muslim population in the U.S.,” as the Michigan Advance reported in October – comes as the war between Israel and Hamas has fractured the...

President Joe Biden won the Michigan Democratic presidential primary in a landslide, capturing around 80 percent of the votes, as of 11:00 p.m; Tuesday. The incumbent president’s victory was widely anticipated in the key swing state. But the Michigan primary also acted as a litmus test for Biden’s standing with essential Democratic voter bases, especially amid heightened tensions about his administration’s handling of the war in Gaza. Over the past few months, Michigan, which has a significant Arab American voter population, became the breeding ground of several anti-Biden campaigns, urging voters to cast “uncommitted” ballots in protest of the Gaza...

In other words, to see the increase because of the Islamic Arab lobby there, deduct 20,000.. _ 2020: Uncommitted 19,106 https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=26&year=2020&f=0&off=0&elect=1

President Barack Obama’s 58 percent share of the vote against the “uncommitted” option on Tuesday not only caused some national headlines but also some headaches for Kentucky Democrats — specifically when it comes to selecting national delegates. Party officials are in the planning process of the statewide organizational convention on June 2 in which those participating with select Kentucky’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. The uncommitted option received enough support to have representation in Kentucky’s delegation to the national convention, and that’s what’s causing the biggest headache for Democratic Party officials who are trying to work...

President Obama lost more than 40 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s Kentucky Democratic primary to the “uncommitted” option — the latest example of the incumbent president failing to win votes in an uncompetitive primary. With 99 percent of precincts reporting in the Bluegrass State, Obama led “uncommitted” just 58 percent to 42 percent. Obama trailed in more than 60 Kentucky counties. It was just the latest episode of the president taking less than 60 percent of the vote in a primary this year. He ceded 41 percent of the vote in West Virginia to an incarcerated man in Texas...

Occupy Iowa and Healthcare NOT Warfare had been attempting to organize a protest vote for a slate of uncommitted, progressive delegates in Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses. With most eyes on the super-tight Republican contest, it’s hard to find any complete results for the Democratic caucuses. In fact, we may never know what happened in some of those Iowa meetings. However, turning to Twitter, it is possible to see some scattered reports of uncommitted delegates being elected at the county-level.Iowa City’s precinct 15 appears to have elected 3 Obama county delegates and a single uncommitted delegate. Iowa City’s precinct 17 elected...

On Saturday, during in an appearance on WSUM 91.7, the University of Wisconsin’s student radio station located in Madison, Darcy Richardson encouraged his supporters in neighboring Iowa to come out and caucus for the Occupy Iowa and Healthcare NOT Warfare efforts to elect a slate of progressive, uncommitted delegates in this Tuesday’s caucuses. “I’ve been encouraging my supporters in Iowa to join with the Occupy Iowa and Healthcare Not Warfare organizations in sending the strongest possible message to the Obama administration,” Richardson told the listening audience. Supporting an uncommitted slate in Iowa gives progressives the best chance to make their...

UNCOMMITTED 2008. Fred Thompson should not drop out. He should, instead, campaign for an Open Convention, allowing every voter a choice. America’s Primary System needs to be challenged. Since Fred Thompson’s address to his supporters early Saturday evening, his campaign has been silent, a silence becoming louder by the hour. Precious time on the ground in Florida is being wasted as Senator Thompson ponders his next step. The pressure and crocodile tears from competitors follows his sharing of a weak third place with Mitt Romney in South Carolina. The networks have already removed him from their lists, though it was...

`Uncommitted' voters could quiet some of Clinton's thunder(AP) Updated: 11/30/2007 10:29:19 AM LANSING, Mich. - At first glance, Hillary Rodham Clinton should easily win Michigan's Democratic primary, since no other top candidates are on the ballot. But she faces an unusual opponent: Uncommitted. If enough backers of the four candidates who aren't on the ballot mark Uncommitted when they vote January 15, it could take some of the luster off what's otherwise a certain Clinton victory. The vote could give backers of Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson and Joe Biden some of the uncommitted slots when Democrats hold district...