Worth mentioning that in 2008 the total for “uncommitted” in the Democratic primary was 238,168 (39.6%), largely because the DNC stripped Michigan of all their delegates for holding their primary before Super Tuesday, and Obama withdrew his name from the ballot (Clinton didn’t and won). Then in 2012 the total for “uncommitted” was 20,833 (10.7%), in 2016 it was 21,601 (1.79%), in 2020 it was 19,106 (1.2%). Seems like the percentage is heavily dependent on turnout, but totals seem to hover around 20k pretty consistently. That means there’s about a 4x increase in uncommitted sentiment above baseline, which surely will increase the pressure to do something different with respect to Gaza between now and November.
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Biden got more than 617,000 votes, or 81%, easily winning the primary but the number of uncommitted votes rose to more than 100,000, or 13%, with 98% of expected votes reported.
Worth mentioning that in 2008 the total for “uncommitted” in the Democratic primary was 238,168 (39.6%), largely because the DNC stripped Michigan of all their delegates for holding their primary before Super Tuesday, and Obama withdrew his name from the ballot (Clinton didn’t and won). Then in 2012 the total for “uncommitted” was 20,833 (10.7%), in 2016 it was 21,601 (1.79%), in 2020 it was 19,106 (1.2%). Seems like the percentage is heavily dependent on turnout, but totals seem to hover around 20k pretty consistently. That means there’s about a 4x increase in uncommitted sentiment above baseline, which surely will increase the pressure to do something different with respect to Gaza between now and November.
Context for lazy bones who didn’t check the article