WI-SEN 2022 Megathread: Who stole my cheese?

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

It's not Kean R it's a Tossup and always has been a Tossup

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

All the polls had it Johnson plus 6 which was off and don't forget Trump hasn't been indicted and we have an oil war in Ukraine

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Barnes was the Cal Cunningham and Bill Nelson of this cycle, an idiot who blew a winnable race and burned the party.

It looks like Johnson may win by just 1%, so I don't really think it's fair to say that Barnes "blew it" considering Johnson was an incumbent, Biden only won the state by <1%, it was a Republican midterm with 8% inflation, etc.

Johnson beat Russ Feingold twice in 2016 a Prez yr it's not BARNES fault, and the only close races Tammy Baldwin had was 2012 Tommy Thompson

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Agreed with the last few posts above. Barnes wasn’t a perfect candidate but given expectations/polling/priors of WI in general I’d say he did well. It definitely hurts now knowing that he won’t be in the Senate but at least I know that treating Wisconsin as a likely R state in the near future (statewide at least) seems to be premature and that Johnson actually got a good scare in the end.

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Tammy Baldwin is  gonna win in 24 Evers won too

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Democrats have often only won in tough races against the trend when they’ve ran a statewide elected official or someone who has a really strong brand- was there anyone like that in WI? I’m not too sure.

Godlewski was the Tammy Baldwin of this race Barnes was over sold as the best candidate he clearly wasn't

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

We will get a better candidate in 28 it's a conciliation that Laxalt lost by 4/8K votes to CCM, Emerson had Johnson and LAXALT plus 5 which is still comical