March 17th Primaries

[AUFriction 1,179]

23 hours ago, Brad_ATX said:

I don't think this is accurate.  In the last seven presidential elections, the Democratic candidate has won the popular vote six times.  The only outlier was Bush in 2004.

To clarify, I meant in electoral college power.

[AUDub 11,158]

Bernie needs to fire this woman ASAP. How do you tweet something so pants on head stupid at one of the most progressive members of the Senate,  a much needed ally?

Whose mother, by the way, was a cancer researcher and died from the disease.

 

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On 3/25/2020 at 4:54 PM, AUFriction said:

To clarify, I meant in electoral college power.

Which confirms Brad's point.

 

 

 

[Brad_ATX 13,654]

Last week's results from Wisconsin are in.  The big news is that a Democrat beat an incumbent Republican, endorsed by Trump, for a state supreme court seat.  And did by over 100,000 votes in a state where recent elections for statewide office have come down to 30,000 votes or less.

Don't sleep on that result.  Could say a lot about a changing electorate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/politics/wisconsin-primary-results.html

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9 hours ago, Brad_ATX said:

Last week's results from Wisconsin are in.  The big news is that a Democrat beat an incumbent Republican, endorsed by Trump, for a state supreme court seat.  And did by over 100,000 votes in a state where recent elections for statewide office have come down to 30,000 votes or less.

Don't sleep on that result.  Could say a lot about a changing electorate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/politics/wisconsin-primary-results.html

"With 99 percent of returns counted, Karofsky led Kelly by more than 163,000 votes, or nearly 11 percentage points — a substantial victory for Democrats in a state expected to be a key battleground in November."....

"The election featured snaking lines in Milwaukee and Green Bay, the result of mass cancellations by poll workers and the closure of polling locations. In Milwaukee, election officials opened just five voting locations, instead of the typical 180."

.....Scott L. Fitzgerald, the Republican majority leader in the Wisconsin Senate, told reporters last year that Kelly would have a “better chance” of winning a new term with lower turnout — a statement that fueled accusations from Democrats as to why Republicans wanted to go forward with last week’s elections.

But heavy mail-in balloting may have upended assumptions about relative advantage; according to statistics issued Monday by the state Elections Commission, nearly 1.1 million Wisconsinites cast ballots that way, nearly as many as total turnout in last year’s Supreme Court race — and more than the total turnout in the court races in each of the previous two years.

Wikler said GOP maneuvering could ultimately prove to be a miscalculation, especially if a spike in coronavirus infections becomes apparent in the coming days that can be attributed to in-person voting last week.".....

........“In the months to come, most Americans might know someone who is hospitalized or has died of covid-19,” he said. “What seems like a cynically clever gambit to win election before a wave of deaths will feel morally bankrupt to most Americans by the time we arrive at November.”....

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/liberal-challenger-defeats-conservative-incumbent-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-race/2020/04/13/7d1195ec-7d9e-11ea-8013-1b6da0e4a2b7_story.html

 

Very encouraging result.