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Kamala is going to Milwaukee tomorrow. pence will be in Wisconsin tomorrow, too (Original Post) mucifer Sep 2020 OP
Good! We lost Wisconsin in 2016 because Milwaukee didn't GOTV! OrlandoDem2 Sep 2020 #1
Milwaukee County itself did vote blue in 2016.... Heartstrings Sep 2020 #2
GOTV in Milwaukee is really important. It's how we won Indiana in 2008 mucifer Sep 2020 #4
Hmmmm... SheltieLover Sep 2020 #3
90 percent white, that's why white bread Poonce, picked La Crosse. sarcasmo Sep 2020 #5
Exactly... Heartstrings Sep 2020 #6

Heartstrings

(7,349 posts)
2. Milwaukee County itself did vote blue in 2016....
Sun Sep 6, 2020, 12:08 PM
Sep 2020

The surrounding counties didn’t however.

And imo, the counties/cities we need to concentrate on are Brown, Fond du Lac, Eau Claire, La Crosse, and other highly red areas that trump visited back in 2016 but we sent no representation. Dane and Milwaukee will stay blue, we need to GOTV in those red areas. I’m already seeing trump signs on I94-39.

mucifer

(23,374 posts)
4. GOTV in Milwaukee is really important. It's how we won Indiana in 2008
Sun Sep 6, 2020, 12:35 PM
Sep 2020

The Obama campaign focused on the blue areas near the Chicago boarder and sent a whole lot of Chicagoans going door to door in the Gary area. We didn't bother with the red parts and we won Indiana and surprised a lot of people.

Each Wisconsin vote is weighted the same. So getting the Milwaukee people excited is very important.

I hope Biden and Harris do have time to come back and work on other areas. But, I understand the strategy.

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
3. Hmmmm...
Sun Sep 6, 2020, 12:11 PM
Sep 2020

Who do you suppose will pull in the masses?

Our amazingly personable, pragmatic, accomplished, ever-so-engaging VP candidate, or "Mother's Boy," scowling and pointing fingers, while denying that nearly 200,000 Americans have been MURDERED by he and his boss?

Heartstrings

(7,349 posts)
6. Exactly...
Sun Sep 6, 2020, 12:57 PM
Sep 2020

And which is why I stressed the need for us to get out of the already blue areas and branch out to the red. Not much need for us to campaign in Milwaukee or Dane counties (we here on the ground are taking care of that by phone banking, sending postcards, etc.)...get up North. Anything North of, and including Marathon County.

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