{"id":22000,"date":"2024-02-28T13:04:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T20:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=22000"},"modified":"2024-03-01T13:56:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T20:56:47","slug":"votes-without-obligation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/votes-without-obligation\/","title":{"rendered":"What do 100 thousand votes without commitment mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to this note:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-22000-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Viviana-3296982.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Viviana-3296982.mp3\">https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Viviana-3296982.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Michigan primary elections, more than 100,000 votes were cast as uncommitted or for no one, with which the Arab people sounded the alarm bell to tell President Joseph Biden that they will no longer tolerate his disdain for the genocide of the Palestinian people at the hands of the far-right Israeli government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biden won the primary with 81 percent in Michigan, but 13.3 percent, or more than 100,000 votes, is a brutal number in that state since, in the last presidential election, Biden beat Republican Donald Trump by only 154,188 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Arab community took this as a strategy and, instead of not showing up to vote and remaining invisible, they cast their votes without commitment as a protest to make known the importance of their vote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will be interesting to see whether this dynamic carries over into the next primary, and whether it will cause a reaction in President Biden&#039;s performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/redwood-city-residents-protest-again\/\">Redwood City residents demonstrate again to demand immediate ceasefire in Gaza<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escucha esta nota: &nbsp; En las elecciones primarias de Michigan aparecieron m\u00e1s de 100 mil votos sin compromiso o para nadie, con los cuales el pueblo \u00e1rabe son\u00f3 la campana de alerta para decirle al presidente Joseph Biden que no van a seguir tolerando su desd\u00e9n ante el genocidio del pueblo palestino a manos del [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":22003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-opinion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22027,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000\/revisions\/22027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}