I guess voters understood Republicans wanted them to risk their health to vote in person. I assume that a few weeks from now we will read about people who died because they voted.
.@ProfGuyCharles, a member of our board, writes in @washingtonpost that partisan gerrymandering is to blame for the #WisconsinPrimary chaos. Instead of partisan gerrymandering, we should have #FairMaps that make gov't more representative and accountable. https://t.co/Vyd8vF9YsA
— Campaign Legal Center (@CampaignLegal) April 21, 2020
"More than a million people voted by mail. That's more than all of the early voting (both in person and by mail) in the 2016 general election." https://t.co/kAHQZaN5IP
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) April 14, 2020
Oh oh.https://t.co/DL6UZMgPOL
— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) April 14, 2020
In the end, the WI Supreme Court race wasn’t very close. Ballots from Dane County (Madison) boosted Karofsky to an 11-point lead; she won by more than 160,000 votes overall.
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) April 14, 2020
In most ways 2020 has been miserable. But then there’s the initial statement of the mayor-elect of Wausau, Wisconsin upon learning of her victory. https://t.co/JkeHZWqn8g
— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) April 14, 2020
After endangering voters' lives by forcing an election in the middle of a pandemic, Republicans still lost in Wisconsin. https://t.co/0QTTLYshjy
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) April 14, 2020
I want to congratulate Judge Jill Karofsky for winning a well-deserved seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court. Although the results of this election have now been released, the people of Wisconsin-and the nation-should not forget what happened last week. We must do better in November. pic.twitter.com/7qgsohasfB
— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) April 14, 2020
Hey Craig, how do the 2020 margins in these counties compare to 2018 governor? https://t.co/lQbRJoBjZn
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) April 14, 2020
Democrats did far better than they expected in this Wisconsin race, but in a month we could watch Republicans do better than expected and win the unusual May special election for #CA25. Presidential turnout is going to be far bigger, either way.
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) April 14, 2020
Is it just me or do WI's technically "nonpartisan" judicial races tend to bring out ancestral liberal strength in northern/western WI not typically seen in WI's recent highly competitive partisan races?
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) April 14, 2020
Liberal challenger Jill Karofsky won election to Wisconsin’s state supreme court.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 14, 2020
Meaning that the court won't okay the GOP's purging of 240,000 voters before the November election.
Or other efforts at voter suppression.
Meaning that this swing state is still in play.
This is HUGE: Milwaukee approved its first school funding referendum since 1993. Students may not be in school, but they were on the ballot. And they just won an essential victory tonight. https://t.co/2ZS2F64ynQ
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) April 13, 2020
Sad! 