Progressive Democrats are on a roll, Michigan has become ground zero in this fall’s midterms, and—stop me if you’ve heard this one—the polls got it wrong. These are among the topics dominating political discourse following Abdul El-Sayed’s hairbreadth victory in Tuesday’s Democratic Senate primary in Michigan.

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