First Report From Michigan

My good friend lives about 30 miles from Lansing, MI. He just sent me a text from their local news with Bernie at 52%. Of course, this will change throughout the night, but damn...that's a nice start.

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good so far.

i saw the reports of high turnout, and i just thought, "yeah, that's what we heard in the Walker recall, and in the 2014 gubernatorial ...", only to have our guts kicked in when the numbers came out.

NBC says Sanders up 4500 votes (51% to 48%) with 20% reporting.

If he wins, it will take enormous self-control to refrain from going over to dKos and getting myself well and truly banned with a diary that is nothing but a list of upper case HA HA F.U.s to about a dozen very specific individuals, one or two of whom i actually once had marginal respect for.

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(the third number is the % "uncommitted")

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The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.

o pleez o pleez o pleez

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On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.

vote margin has been creeping up the last few updates.

26%, 4000 margin, 50/48/2

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On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.

I'm still worried Detroit will come in 80% HRC -- but any way you slice it, the polls were FUCKING WRONG, and Sanders' constituency has turned out.

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On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.

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The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.

Sanders now up by 7000.
No idea how many votes to expect ... so far there have been 235K

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The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.

Is Bubbanomics a Sanders supporter?

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What kind of self discipline it will take me. Funny on the CBS NEWS the Michigan primary doesn't exist as they breathlessly repeat over and over that Hillary won Mississippi. Really? Democrats spend 3.5 years badmouthing Mississippi now they are the Democrats new best friend. The mental gymnastics in that are awesome.....

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BrutallyHonest's picture

Come on keep rising! ... or stay in the lead at least.
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Stephen Carll's picture

Wasn't Sanders supposed to lose by 20+ points? This is fairly fucking encouraging.

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“I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. 'I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.' 'I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.' 'Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!'”- Bill Hicks

impossible configurations.

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The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.

Rex Freedom's picture

COME ON MICHIGAN!

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America has elected a democratic socialist before. Many times.

51/47/2

I'm just holding my breath waiting in fear for the (inexplicable to me) AA hammer to come down.

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On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.

Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal's picture

1)This is the pent-up anger of many years of white liberals being condescending, taking them for granted
or
2)Their leaders came and asked them to do this, and they trust their leaders WAY more than any white liberal or progressive, including Sanders.

I'm betting on #2, but there may be a bit of #1 in there too.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

make the same observation as someone else made a couple of weeks ago: African Americans do not in aggregate skew particularly liberal. A large fraction of the African American evangelical vote would vote Republican, if the Republican party hadn't committed itself to racism back in 1968.

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On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.

must outpoll hillary+committed to claim victory.

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The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.

Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal's picture

Sanders still in the lead with 1/3 vote reported. But remember guys--not too high not too low. Hillary will get a lot of votes out of Detroit.

What seems fairly clear is that this won't be the big landslide defeat MSM was predicting only a week ago or so.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Try "this morning"

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The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.

RuralLiberal's picture

Bernie up by 4 points!

Come on, Michigan, keep Bernin!

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"Stand Up! Keep Fighting!" - Paul Wellstone

PastorAgnostic's picture

Eye dew Believe wee half a Vick Tory.

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Alphalop's picture

Statewide results
3,943/4,830 precincts (81.6%) reporting
Bernie Sanders
464,727
50.4%
Hillary Clinton
438,229
47.6%
921,507 total votes

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