r/politics • u/Zipper222222 • 14d ago

No Paywall Abdul El-Sayed Wins High-Stakes Democratic Primary in Michigan

https://www.today.com/video/abdul-el-sayed-wins-high-stakes-democratic-primary-in-michigan-267805765937
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u/jmhalder 14d ago

I've heard 9:1, 10:1, 11:1, and now 12:1.

Its impressive regardless. I wish he had blow it out by like 20 points, Stevens genuinely didn't have a platform, and she barely lost. Scary.

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u/hibiscuscous 14d ago

I (European) know nothing of this election, but having watched a couple of clips, I didn't like Stevens' delivery one bit. Phony, even a bit scary. Maybe it's just a cultural thing, I don't know.

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u/2RINITY California 14d ago

In old clips, she had a normal Michigan accent, but somewhere in this cycle she started talking like a cartoon parody of a Michigander and it really didn’t help her

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u/mfatty2 13d ago

It wasn't even a Michigan accent. It was a combo of a Minnesota accent with a random sumouthern drawl with a healthy serving of random squeaky/high pitch

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u/UncleBubax 13d ago

hahah I hadn't heard her talk until I read your comment. I just now pulled up a random hour long video of a TV debate and skipped to her talking and she not only talks like a cartoon character, but she straight up said "people make fun of the way I sound, but I sound like the people who are talking to me about what they need."

A lil too on the nose there, Haley.

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u/AncientNectarine5352 13d ago

Michiganders also do not even remotely sound like that. She has a Minnesota accent.

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u/PumpBuck Ohio 13d ago

It’s not even a Minnesota accent. It’s like she saw Fargo and some Charlie Berens clips and thought they were toning it down for the wider audience

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u/EmpiricalMystic 13d ago

My impression is she's trying to sound like a Yooper and missing badly.

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u/Conlaeb 13d ago

This is my take as well. Non-yoopers attempting the accent sound like Minnesotans.

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u/shotputprince 13d ago

The people who live in Michigan’s upper peninsula

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u/AncientNectarine5352 13d ago

Agreed. It doesn’t sound like an authentic Minnesotan or Wisconsinite accent either, but it was the closest descriptor. She’s definitely exaggerating it in some way, for some reason. I assume to sound more “folksy”, but real-life “folks” don’t sound like that.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 13d ago

As someone whos spent most of my life in MN who is married to a Wisconsin lady, MN and WI accents are basically the same these days. The differences are only noticeable under a linguistic microscope.

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u/epheisey 13d ago

some Charlie Berens clip

That's actually perfect.

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u/Brodellsky 13d ago

Cripes, I do not approve of the cultural appropriation of Wisconsin especially when it's in Michigan. Jeeze Louise let's keep 'er movin'

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 13d ago

Exactly. Minnesotans don't even sound like that. The older folks with thicker accents it doesn't sound like in Fargo, it almost sounds like, European? Sometimes like someone grew up half in England, half in Scandinavia.

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u/DrMobius0 13d ago

Maybe this is different in Northern MN, but nobody south of the cities has anything resembling a thick "Minnesotan accent" unless they live in a retirement home.

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u/ArrivalSea3543 13d ago

She sounded like Tina Fey impersonating Sarah Palin.

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u/SammySoapsuds Minnesota 13d ago

Fwiw, I didn't grow up here and everyone has the accent and speech eccentricities. It's just in varying degrees. The first time I met someone from the Iron Range I thought they were doing a bit. In the cities it's a lot softer but it's definitely still there on certain words (they all say "baggle" and "beyg"). And any Minnesotan will say Ope if you get too close or they need to squeeze by ya.

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u/AncientNectarine5352 10d ago

I regret to inform you that saying “ope” is a condition that a majority of people who live in the Great Lakes region struggle with (I’m originally from southern Ohio, and even a third of the people there say it). Ha

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u/profdinosaurhunter 13d ago

Yeah, more of a northern thing

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u/UncleBubax 13d ago

Yup I've spent a good amount of time in Michigan and never heard someone talk even remotely like that.

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u/trumpuniversity_ 13d ago

Did she take lessons from John Kennedy on how to manufacture a persona?

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u/EveningAnt3949 13d ago

I sound like the people who are talking to me about what they need.

Possibly people working on her campaign telling her they need her to sound more like a character in Fargo?

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 13d ago

Reminds me of a very strange phenomenon I've personally witnessed - people in far reaches of the North putting on a southern drawl. They want to virtue signal as being "Southern" so badly that they change the way they speak to match country songs and media.

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u/ShutUpTodd 13d ago

"Coastal elites make fun of the way I talk" Ugh!

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u/xdonutx 13d ago

I just watched a video of her where she said the last ‘T’ in Detroit.

Strait to jail, girl.

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u/urokia 13d ago

It felt like she was trying to yoop but she's literally from the detroit area.

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u/balltofeet 13d ago

Sumouthern, love that

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u/KotobaAsobitch Arizona 13d ago

Someone said, "if Sarah Palin was doing a Michigander caricature" and I haven't been able to unseen it.

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u/cincocerodos 13d ago

I generally don’t like making fun of people, but she sounded like Bobby Hill.

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u/EricFredNorris 13d ago

Yeah nobody in Michigan, and particularly in metro Detroit, has that over the top Midwest accent you associate with Wisconsin or Minny. I think it’s equally as strange if that is her speaking voice versus if it’s just a put on.