It’s worth poking around the entrails of the returns for the agonizingly close — and, given pre-primary polls results — surprising results of recent Democratic primaries in the key swing Midwestern states of Michigan and Wisconsin, with a side look at Minnesota.

These results highlight a basic split between the constituencies that have suddenly come to dominate the Democratic primary electorate, neither of which much resembles the white working class demographic, the memory of which Democratic politicians invoke nostalgically, though its members mostly vote for Trump Republicans these days.

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In both Michigan’s senatorial and Wisconsin’s gubernatorial primaries, the results were so close that it’s useful to express them in the usually supererogatory tenths of a percentage.

In Michigan, the Woke 2 (to use Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s terminology) candidate Abdul el Sayed beat Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) by a margin of 1 percentage point. In Wisconsin, as of this writing, the establishment choice, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, leads Assemblywoman Francesca Hong by 0.4 percentage points.

Switches of just 7,999 votes in Michigan and 1,638 votes in Wisconsin would have changed the results. 

Just as el Sayed’s victory does not prove that a candidate who emphasized issues out of the Democratic Socialists of America playbook is a sure winner, Hong’s defeat does not prove that........

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