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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWisconsin Supreme court seat loss is an unmitigated DISASTER for the GOP........
In a year where a global pandemic lead to 175 of 180 polling locations in Milwaukee (a Democratic stronghold) being closed, and absentee ballots were tossed because somehow they didn't get a postmark... this should have been a CAKEWALK for the GOP. Despite a mass voter suppression effort where voters literally had to RISK THEIR LIVES to vote in blue areas, the GOP STILL LOST.
In a state drumpf HAS TO HAVE in 2020, this isn't just a canary in a coal mine, it is a reason to absolutely PANIC not just for drumpf but for rethugs all across the nation up for election.
In 2016 about 200,000 people voted in Milwaukee county's primary. 100,000 voted in the GOP primary. This year 180,000 people voted. Even if you assume ALL the rethugs stayed home since there was no contested presidential primary, that is still a 10% drop off due to voter suppression, and the gop STILL lost the seat!!!!!!!!!
This bodes VERY well for November.
WVreaper
(622 posts)dweller
(23,651 posts)for the trumptanic..
✌🏼
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,819 posts)that pissed-off Democrats will swim a mile through shark-infested sewage after crawling naked over broken glass in order to vote.
msongs
(67,433 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)Thanks for the
MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)lastlib
(23,269 posts)🌵
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)lastlib
(23,269 posts)Last edited Tue Apr 14, 2020, 03:35 PM - Edit history (1)
over broken glass!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)alterfurz
(2,474 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Dorian Gray
(13,498 posts)and crawl through a lake of maggots to vote.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Nothing will stop me voting! Cant wait to kick the Rethugs out!
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)And I know 3 republicans that are voting Biden. Not religious types. Just selfish SOBs.
Dorian Gray
(13,498 posts)lifelong Republicans, both said they're voting Biden. In Florida.
This will happen.
relayerbob
(6,551 posts)Did they move all the polling places to the Oval Office?
klook
(12,164 posts)lastlib
(23,269 posts)There is still a LONG way to go, and lots to happen between now and November.
Putin and GOP dirty tricks have yet to rear their ugly heads in full. Yeah, the GOPhers tried this time, and got beat, but they ain't takin' yes for an answer, not when their power and money are on a knife's edge. Vladdy-Daddy is bound to try something.
So work your asses off as if this was a crushing defeat that we have to overcome. Becuz there is still shit ahead--count on it.
samsingh
(17,600 posts)starting with what looked like george bush's theft of the election against Al Gore
to the supreme court drama by mcconnell and now the efforts under drumpf
Under The Radar
(3,404 posts)uponit7771
(90,356 posts)Sunriser13
(612 posts)Article from March 30 after tRump talked his little shit about what oversight he would or wouldn't accept as he signed the bill:
Nancy Pelosi Is Already Talking About the Next Stimulus Bill for Coronavirus Relief
But Ms. Pelosi made it clear that if the administration did not honor the conditions, it would receive no cooperation from Congress on future legislation to deal with the pandemic.
We have passed legislation with conditions in it, Ms. Pelosi said. I believe they understand that it isnt the last bill that will ever be passed, and if they expect any future cooperation on anything else, that they should honor this bill.
Still, she said that Mr. Trumps tendency to undercut what other members of his team agree to in complicated negotiations made it more difficult to hammer out the kind of relief plans that are needed in a crisis.
The above if from near the end of the article, but the whole thing is interesting...
THANK YOU to all voters!!!
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)The end is nigh
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)were only 5 polling places. THAT is some impressive determination!
I agree this is a bad, bad omen for the Rs come November.
MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)Takket
(21,611 posts)Link to tweet
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MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)Please make it be so!!!!!!
We can do it - Wisconsin showed us the way!
uponit7771
(90,356 posts)c-rational
(2,595 posts)WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)But so do we!
Skittles
(153,174 posts)YOU KNEW WHAT HAD TO BE DONE AND YOU DID IT
Ohioboy
(3,243 posts)We're proud of you!
Tarheel_Dem
(31,237 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,844 posts)Watch out for Nov 3rd, and Nov 4th...........It makes no difference if he cheats and wins the election, or if by some miracle he loses the election.......What you see Trump and Republicans do, in either case, will Rock the U.S. like nothing ever before in the history of our country and Democracy.......
I truly am frightened, by what the entire nation may witness, on those two days.............
If you think, for one moment, that they will just roll over dead, you haven't been watching what has been going on since 2000. They are one millimeter away from reaching a coup to establishing a Corporate Fascist Tyranny......
THIS Republicon Party, without a doubt, is by far the most corrupt political party in American History, not only despicable, but totally, absolutely corrupted and un-questionably criminal........
....before we go s*c?%i&g each other off... these assholes don't give up and they play hard ball. The way the turtle has been acting lately you got to figure they have got a plan to cheat up their sleeve. They have stole 3 out of 5 presidential elections this century. They are experts on voter suppression and cheating. They will cheat.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Wisconsin Dems are very excited tonight!
mountain grammy
(26,644 posts)And a big thank you to all in Wisconsin who literally risked their lives to vote.. waited in lines..
TeamPooka
(24,248 posts)dflprincess
(28,082 posts)I imagine their favorite tactic with purging the voting lists in states that don't have same day registration.
And every one lives in a state that does have it - bring what ID/documents you need to re-register with you when you vote, just in case.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,352 posts)But in the short term, Kelly would have greenlighted the purge of 200,000 voters from the rolls before the November election. With Karofsky being sworn in on August 1, that plan is dead. The court will still have four conservatives and three liberals, but conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn voted against the purge last time, and Kelly had recused himself. With Kelly out and Karofsky in, Democrats at least have a fighting chance against whatever insane vote suppressing fuckery the GOP is plotting for the fall.
https://www.wonkette.com/wisconsin-gop-vote-suppressing-f-ckery-bites-em-in-the-ass
Kelly presumably recused himself because he had an upcoming election then, and so had an interest, but would have been able to say "this doesn't affect me now". See:
The court split 3-3 Monday on whether to take the case immediately, with newly elected conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn joining the court's liberals in voting to deny the petition. Fellow conservative Justice Daniel Kelly, who is up for election in April, declined to hear the case.
https://www.wpr.org/wisconsin-supreme-court-wont-hear-immediate-appeal-voter-purge-ruling
patphil
(6,199 posts)My parents came from there...traveled east during the Great Depression when the factory my father worked in packed up and moved to New York and told their workers they could keep their jobs if they followed along. Of course it would be at their own expense.
Sadly, I watched as the right wing Republicans of Wisconsin demonstrated time and time again that they didn't care for laws unless they supported their position.
Perhaps this latest indignity has gotten the residents of Wisconsin to say, as the cartoon character Popeye always said, "That's all I can stand and I can't stands no more!"
Oh! Hurry November, the nation needs you!
yonder
(9,669 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,631 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)He just lost Wisconsin.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,453 posts)more and more reporters start piling on and twisting him like a spring.
Lokilooney
(322 posts)Is that the demographic that is most likely to be severely affected by the virus aka older people aka the ones more likely to vote GOP didn't want to risk it and either stayed home or voted by absentee ballot...
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)Response to Takket (Original post)
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sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Amazing.......this was a juggernaut in the end, not even close.
Jill Karofsky
855,981 55.3%
Daniel Kelly*
692,523 44.7
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)Considering that Trump won Wisconsin and the inroads the right wing has made there and the fact that they were counting on the roadblocks this pandemic put in place for their forced primary. With all that an incumbent right wing judge was voted out in favor of a progressive. It's seismic. For the first time in my memory people on OUR side seem to be willing to crawl over broken glass to vote these fascists out. Onward to November!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,400 posts)Ani Yun Wiya
(797 posts)A blue wave, it will not be a blue tsunami, it will be a blue flood of biblical proportion...
moose65
(3,168 posts)Trump and his ilk have unwittingly woken up a LOT of people!
Think of all the special elections that have either been won by Democrats or have been far, far closer than they should've been.
Think of the Dems winning a Senate seat in Alabama.
Think of the 2018 elections, when they got the shit kicked out of them and Trump wasn't on the ballot. Now imagine it when he IS on the ballot.
This Wisconsin judicial election is the cherry on top!
People are seriously WOKE and PISSED. I hope the blue flood this fall makes Noah's flood look like an April shower.
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BigDemVoter
(4,156 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,257 posts)If I have to crawl 4 miles to the polling place and back, I will be there. If they have to wheel my hospital bed, I'll be there.
keithbvadu2
(36,876 posts)Every republican running should have his image paired with an image of Trump saying "I take no responsibility at all."
onetexan
(13,056 posts)My impression is that there are also nevertrumpers who've voted in 2018 & in the Dems primaries to date, helping to drive up our turnout numbers. Let's hope the next Blue Wave is a Tsunami!!!
bucolic_frolic
(43,257 posts)that the GOP doesn't have the horses. IOW their people are turned off by pandemic, or the corruption - Donald John Trump is coming home to roost.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)KARMA is a bytch, and she's got sisters (who also show up)!
MH1
(17,600 posts)loads of dirty tricks and criminal activities to undermine the Democratic vote.
Grins
(7,227 posts)The Democratic candidate for the state Supreme Court beat the INCUMBENT Republican authoritarian by TEN PERCENTAGE POINTS!
It was that bigly!
ailsagirl
(22,898 posts)spudspud
(511 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,157 posts)Why is fat ass Trump inserting himself in what should be a local issue?