1 hour ago · Politics · hide

Continuing on with the theme for the past few days, we can check in on what "Nonnegotiable" is up to in Michigan. For those who don't remember, Nonnegotiable is a group of Michigan Jewish Democrats who responded to Abdul El-Sayed's primary victory by sending him a list of five ultimatums nonnegotiable demands that are absolutely not ultimatums but only brook no argument or discussion and must be agreed to unconditionally before a conversation can even begin. This, unsurprisingly, did not engender a positive response, and Nonnegotiable has spent the ensuing weeks complaining about how they're being overlooked and marginalized while also promising to take their movement national.Anyway, what they're proposing is that Jews cast a protest vote by writing-in "Emma Lazarus" on their Senate ballot. This is an interesting gambit, in large part because I can't see any universe in which it doesn't blow up in their faces. Let's run through the plausible outcomes.Possibility 1: As polling…

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