WI-SEN 2022 Megathread: Who stole my cheese?

[Leading Political Consultant Ma Anand Sheela]

Personally, if polls had shown that I possibly had a shot at taking down an unpopular incumbent senator, I would simply have campaigned against him.

[Leading Political Consultant Ma Anand Sheela]

Barnes could have started by acknowledging that Wisconsin is a fairly polarised place with its own peculiarities, and Johnson having relatively poor approval numbers doesn't mean lots of people won't still turn out for him. Once he'd internalised that, he could have started working on a plan that didn't seemingly mostly boil down to reciting and tweeting out stock lines that any Democrat anywhere in the country could have said. Ideally that plan would even have accounted for the fact that Johnson is also allowed to campaign.