WI-SEN 2022 Megathread: Who stole my cheese?

[Klobmentum Mutilated Herself]

Johnson's probably not going to lose, but if he does lose despite the national environment, I think a key reason will be that he says he'd rather retire. Barnes, or whoever his opponent is, NEEDS to pounce on this.

No Johnson voter is flipping to Barnes on a basis of "well, I like Ron, but he said he'd only serve two terms."

Barnes's strategy is going to be the same as Evers and Biden: maximize turnout in Milwaukee and Dane County. Until the WI Dems start building real party infrastructure and a bench, that's all a Dem can do for now.

[Klobmentum Mutilated Herself]

I just saw an anti-Johnson ad during halftime of the SF-DAL game.  It was on Madison TV, not sure if it was the whole state or just here.  It was from a Dem-aligned PAC and talking points painted him as a member of the Washington Swamp, he broke his term-limit promise, and pushed for a tax loophole as his net worth skyrocketed while in office.

The term limit attack will not convince anyone. We've known since forever that tax cuts for the rich don't trickle down; conservative voters do not care. Republicans think the billionaire real estate mogul is anti-estahblishment, and they've already been buying RoJo's outsider narrative for a decade. It's not going to work.

[Klobmentum Mutilated Herself]

This. They need to attack him on his extremism.

I'm not certain that will work either. Republicans think Brandon, the guy who spent an entire Senate career shilling for DuPont and credit card companies, is a communist who must Go. They'll come up with whatever justification to keep voting for a Republican Party that keeps moving further and further to the right.

The Dems have no infrastructure at the state and local levels. They have no organization. They wasted Clinton's trifecta, Obama's supermajority trifecta (with a majority if governorships, which everyone forgets), and they're wasting Biden's trifecta in such a way that makes Obama from 09-10 look productive. They couldn't flip one statehouse in 2020 and took a big victory lap anyway with their Senate "Majority" and a president who barely beat a guy who admitted on tape that he purposefully ignored COVID. They have a major disconnect with their base. Until they completely clean house and start building a real party like the Republicans did in the 60s when they were in the wilderness, their only hope in Wisconsin is to increase voter turnout in Milwaukee/Madison and hope for the best.