Sad to say but the west would be more competitive if it wasn’t Barnes at the top. Someone white would play a lot better in the burbs and rural. It’s bad out there for anyone with a darker complexion.
I'm not 100% convinced that's true. The only presidential candidate to win Wisconsin in a general election by more than 1% this century was a black man. Obviously coalitions have changed since then. Barnes isn't losing because he's black, he's losing because he's a Democrat in a red-leaning state in a red-leaning year.
Things are different in rural Wisconsin they were in 2008 and 2012. He would no longer get that support, you have many people saying they were “fooled by obozo and would never vote for a socialist again”.
