Wisconsin Megathread v2: Hagedorn vs. Neubauer

[MasterJedi]

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/17/lame-duck-lawsuit-judge-eliminates-early-voting-limits/2606225002/

Step 1 of GOP overreach struck down, many more to come!

[MasterJedi]

Always good to see Herr Vos have a negative approval, even if it is 70%+ no opinion. Scary people don't know who he is when he wants to be the next Governor.

[MasterJedi]

https://www.wisn.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-brian-hagedorn-augustine-academy-gays/26343309

Well, looks like the Republicans picked the wrong wagon to hitch themselves to for the supreme court election.

[MasterJedi]

Spring primaries are today in WI, including a Madison mayoral primary.  Turnout in Madison is on par with 2011 (when the Act 10 stuff was going on), double 2015.  This is without a Supreme Court primary.  https://madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/madison-primary-election-morning-voter-turnout-on-par-with-double/article_6b2c01a3-972b-5b6c-8b05-4e87380f3c23.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Wisconsin Democrats are seriously lucky Dane County is elastic and has grown as much as it has. Its electorate would look like Ohio without it.

Conversely, Wisconsin Republicans are seriously lucky Dane County has grown and been as successful as it has been. Otherwise they wouldn't have a good boogey-man to wage an urban-rural culture war against.

I'd argue that "Little Chicago" Milwaukee is more of an albatross in this state.

Only because most of rural Wisconsin is basically hofoidstan, aka really racist people. WOW at least tries to pretend to not be and has a lot of conservatives that don't hate black people, as long as they don't have to live next to them.

[MasterJedi]

And it gets worse for Hagedorn, as he loses the endorsement of the Wisconsin Realtors Association and they’re pulling back financial support.  This group has been influential in getting conservative court candidates onto the bench.

https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-candidate-loses-influential-backer/article_527a3ff6-4d23-5239-96ba-2694c66b11a9.html?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wisconsin%20state%20journal

Wow, really bad for Hagedorn. It is almost a certainty that if the liberals can win this year, they can take the State Supreme Court next year as the election will be on the same day as the Democratic Presidential Primary. 

Hence why they REALLY wanted to get that removed as they were terrified of normal people voting that day.

[MasterJedi]

All the old conservative FB people are furious at this, can the Governor just round them up and deploy them to the border with the same sh**tty pay instead?

[MasterJedi]

This dude is crazy:

https://twitter.com/DanielBice/status/1103346745696768001

And conservatives say that radical Islam is the danger when we should be terrified of these radical Christians.

[MasterJedi]

Per usual the rurals have the "SOS" Save Our State, vote Talibandorn signs out in full force.

Coincidentally all the rural farms that have those signs don't like the free market milk prices and are asking the government for socialism to make more money.

[MasterJedi]

Conservatives are making a late outside spending push for Hagedorn for the last week. Prior to this he had been outspent 14-1 by outside spending. I would not be shocked if internal polling looked really bad. Things have not been going his way:

If polling really looked that bad wouldn't conservative write the race off and not invest anything? Easy to argue that the late push after not investing before then means outside group saw some positive signs in polling they didn't see before.

Writing off the race would essentially mean writing off the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which would be too big of a loss.

Neubauer HAS to win. Not only is this election a crucial path to Democratic control over the SC, but any judge who doesn't see the dangers of conversion therapy should REALLY be defeated!

Doesn't seem to be looking as good as it did last year for the GOP. Last year had a credible opponent, this year you have someone who's bringing out the Christian Taliban in force and it's rubbing a lot of people the wrong way.

[MasterJedi]

At least when Hagedorn loses he has a job lined up as chief stoner in Brunei. That's where he belongs with the views he has.

[MasterJedi]

Proudly voted for Neubauer and Satya early this morning. I was in the 60s at my precinct.

Got my vote in for Neubauer and Shelton, forgot to check what position I was in the south burbs.