dagblog - Comments for "Wisconsin is Rising Up!"

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jollyroger — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:40:50 +0000

In reply to You want skirt? Here's skirt.

(picks self up off floor...) I just played this...outstanding!

BAGPIPES!!

jollyroger — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:38:44 +0000

In reply to WI's suburban W-O-W counties

BAGPIPES!!

WI's suburban W-O-W counties

artappraiser — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:05:29 +0000

In reply to Wisconsin is Rising Up!

WI's suburban W-O-W counties outside MKE are no longer the same juggernaut for GOP they were pre-Trump, esp. Ozaukee, Waukesha. Same voting pattern in 16 (pres), 18 (gov), 20 (WI sup ct): smaller landslides, lesser margins.
whither WOW counties? a look: https://t.co/XbFb8aAFaU
— Craig Gilbert (@WisVoter) April 20, 2020

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PeraclesPlease — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 07:56:00 +0000

In reply to Well, ok, maybe...But don't

You want skirt? Here's skirt.
(Age appropriate, NQSFW)

ENERGY!!! pic.twitter.com/EFdk2ygtBn
— call gunna if you want you a birkin (@KiaSpeaks) April 12, 2020

Well, ok, maybe...But don't

jollyroger — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 07:42:16 +0000

In reply to The state mostly leans red

Well, ok, maybe...But don't expect me to give up on the skirt...

So we might not count on a

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 06:42:00 +0000

In reply to The state mostly leans red

So we might not count on a national uprising of disgusted independents based on Wisconsin, but it's still a good sign that rapacious dangerous partisan affronts don't always succeed.

The state mostly leans red

artappraiser — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 04:18:59 +0000

In reply to The open primary is relevant

The state mostly leans red because it is mostly more rural people who don't like someone coming from far away and saying they are from the government and are there to help when the supposed helpers don't have a clue what's actually been going on in the locality. Only Madison and Milwaukee leans blue. Many from both camps are open to a trial with independent thinking radicals (hence characters like Trump, Paul Ryan and even way back when: Bob LaFollette types can be given a chance to do it their way.)

As I said, I haven't seen or looked at any stats (Marquette University polling would be the one to go to for that) But I would suspect it took a number of red leaners really pissed off at what the state GOP was trying to do to rig election partisan with a purge to add to voters leaning blue in order to elect the judge:

One short-term impact of the liberal’s court win in Wisconsin will be on the fight over a purge of 200k voters. Court had been split 3-3 with a conservative joining the 2 liberals and Kelly abstaining due to this election. So there’s now a 4-3 majority against the purge.
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) April 14, 2020

The Wisconsin I know is just not political party partisans. Yes there are lots of rabid conservatives,and moderates and liberals, and also many libertarians. They vote for individuals. If you listened to political talk radio there a while, you'd see it. (Charlie Sykes is one example, before going national, he was a big radio star for a long time.) I don't see judges and political parties taking away voting rights to be too popular. They knew the solution.

Edit to add: now that I think on it, I can't think of any Wisconsite I ever met that said they were a proud Democrat nor a proud Republican. They'll say more descriptive things like "I'm an FDR Democrat" or "I mostly agree with Limbaugh".

The open primary is relevant

jollyroger — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 01:45:52 +0000

In reply to Hah,don't be ridiculous, this

The open primary is relevant to the judicial election how?

Hah,don't be ridiculous, this

artappraiser — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 01:05:15 +0000

In reply to DoubleA, it's time to rethink

Huh? don't be ridiculous, this is working within the system as it is, no revolution at all.

Look, I haven't read any articles but the thing prognosticators would really want to know here, since it's an open primary, is how many people who describe themselves as "Republican" came out to vote for Democrats because they are pissed about either Trump or about how their own GOP Statehouse has been acting.

Wisconsin is the whole swing thing in exquisite microcosm, this thing is how Trump won the electoral college in the first place and within the stats is the answer on whether his losing is a sure thing. I think that goes for flipping the Senate too. If pissed off normally GOP voters come out and vote for Dems, that's the real turnout one wants.

(cavaet: these are independent contrarian and/or idiosyncratic people, so winner beware: they'll probably turn against you next time because they didn't like what ya did.)

DoubleA, it's time to rethink

jollyroger — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 00:54:36 +0000

In reply to Things are proceeding well,

DoubleA, it's time to rethink your apostasy..

Come home to *the girl you were.....Emma will forgive you.

The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated.

Hasta La Victoria Siempre.

*ETA Roll up that Catholic School skirt...