On Super Tuesday, I Proudly Committed My Ballot to President Biden

Massachusetts was one of more than a dozen states to have its primary last night during Super Tuesday. I am proud to say that I was among the more than half a million Democratic and independent voters who cast a ballot for President Biden. In all, Biden won 81.4% of the vote in the Bay State. 

It was important to me to show my support for President Biden not only because of his accomplishments concerning COVID relief, vaccine distribution, student loan relief, infrastructure spending and empowering Medicare to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, but because of his steadfast support for Israel in its hour of need. 

This is especially true given the concerted efforts by some Democrats to be "uncommitted" to him as was the case among more than 100,000 voters in Michigan last week. In Massachusetts there is a ballot line called "No Preference" and 9.2% of those who selected Democratic ballots voted this way comprising nearly 60,000 votes. "No Preference" outpolled Dean Phillips by greater than a 2-to-1 margin. Then again, President Biden received nearly ten times as many votes as "No Preference". 

Nevertheless, there is a critical mass of Democratic voters who will not support President Biden because he stood with Israel instead of Hamas. Indeed, before I went into the polling station, a couple of pro-Hamas supporters shouted, "Biden is complicit in genocide. Vote No Preference."

In Minnesota, 19% of Democratic primary voters selected uncommitted whereas President Biden received 70%. Nearly 90,000 voters in North Carolina voted uncommitted comprising 12.7% of the vote compared to 87.3% for President Biden. Although fewer than 100 votes were cast in the American Samoa Democratic caucus, Biden lost to the heretofore unknown Jason Palmer who is running on an explicitly anti-Israel platform. 

None of this, of course, will deny President Biden the Democratic Party nomination. But if Democratic voters remain uncommitted in November it will harken the return of Donald Trump to the White House. Should this come to pass I don't want to hear any uncommitted voters complain because they would have only themselves to blame for bringing about the end of American democracy.