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Nine months after the October 7 attacks by Hamas on Israel, the war drags on and with it the divide within the Democratic Party over the war. Some see this divide as having serious consequences for the 2024 elections, possibly affecting the outcome in Michigan (a swing state with a large Arab-American community) and affecting the votes of young people, who protested on campus against U.S. support for Israel and whose feelings toward Israel are not as warm as those of other, older generations. The extent to which splits within the Democratic Party over Israel will influence the upcoming congressional and presidential elections is unknown, but with over half of the 2024 primaries out of the way, the results indicate that far-left positions on the war are both rare among candidates and unpopular with Democratic voters.