Wisconsin Megathread v3: GOP in MASSIVE DISARRAY

[Matty]

Man, what is up with wisconsin voting in these "nonpartisan" (but partisan) races? edu chief, court justice, etc.

The state voted for like 13 points for the liberal justice and only a few months later, trump loses the state by half a point.

[Matty]

Man, what is up with wisconsin voting in these "nonpartisan" (but partisan) races? edu chief, court justice, etc.

The state voted for like 13 points for the liberal justice and only a few months later, trump loses the state by half a point.

Huge differences in turnout numbers.

State Superintendent races are heavily Democratic electorates.

is there a particular reason why?

the state is as purple as they come on national, gubernatorial, and senatorial races.

Why the blue tinge downballot?

[Matty]

Wait, is Kerr even a republican? Just saw on twitter that obama's education secretary endorsed her?

Are Kerr and underly both dems?

[Matty]

When does Ron Johnson announce his retirement? lol

these numbers must terrify him

[Matty]

Wait, is Kerr even a republican? Just saw on twitter that obama's education secretary endorsed her?

Are Kerr and underly both dems?

She's not a Republican and she openly endorsed Biden. However she also supports things like vouchers and charter schools, so the Republicans rallied around her instead of backing one of their own candidates.

oh, ok. that makes sense.

I don't think wisconsin, a state with a very good k-12 system, is into vouchers that much. Understandable that voters would be sour towards a candidate with that message.

[Matty]

So, would it be kind of fair to call this race a primary between a liberal democrat and a moderate/center democrat who favors some conservative education policies?

[Matty]

GOP won the 13th Senate district but looks like a massive underperformance to me. What happened?

1) superintendent race brought out more dems than reps

2) there was a conservative independent who ran an aggressive write in campaign and got 6% of the vote

[Matty]

While I wouldn't take that much from this race, the fact that a non-incumbent liberal did better than Biden in at least Ozaukee and Waukesha counties is a big deal. This typically does not happen in non-partisan elections.

Need more data to see if it matters or not.

We all remember the "non-partisan" Wisconsin election in mid 2020...


I can totally tell that a lot of yall are looking for any evidence you can find that 2022 will be the dems 2002.