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‘It’s My Bleeding Heart’: Michiganders Agonize Over Stevens vs. El-Sayed
['Sarah Longwell']
The Bulwark
(Photo illustration by Sarah Rogers/ The Bulwark | Photos: Getty, Shutterstock)HALEY STEVENS’S AND ABDUL EL-SAYED’S campaigns are wildly different in ways that are pitting Democratic voters’ heads against their hearts.
And with polls showing El-Sayed leading by double digits, I wonder if the heart is pulling away.
Focus groups help shed light on the way voters reconcile their personal preferences with strategic calculations, in a way that polling can’t.
We wanted to get a deeper sense of how they were feeling about tomorrow’s election.
One of our participants, Amanda, summed up a tension she’s feeling between idealism and pragmatism: