November 1942. "Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Michigan. Coke being pushed into a quenching car." 4x5 inch Kodachrome transparency by Arthur S. Siegel for the Office of War Information. View full size.
More than 101,000 votes—or 13.3% of all voters in Michigan’s Democratic primary—were cast for “uncommitted,” an option that organizers had chosen as their avenue to register outrage toward Biden for his unconditional support of Israel.
That a ballot protest targeting the race’s incumbent would clear the six-figure mark, especially when its goal was just 10,000 votes, is historically significant: Michigan was decided by roughly 150,000 votes when Biden won it in 2020—and around 10,000 in 2016, when it went for Trump.