In Wisconsin's big races, transcending the chaos could be the key for Democrats
Paul Maslin, the nationally respected Democratic pollster and campaign strategist, will be working this year on behalf of Paul Soglin and likely Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin’s big statewide elections this year.
Just last month, Maslin helped shake up national politics by working to elect Doug Jones as a U.S. senator from Alabama.
That election marked the stunning defeat of Republican Roy Moore, the arch-conservative former judge and alleged pursuer of teenage girls. Maslin’s strategic approach in that campaign was encapsulated in his television ad about — of all things — the Civil War battle of Gettysburg. Maslin, who splits time between Madison and his California office, grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, less than an hour from Gettysburg. He told me in an interview that he dreamed up the ad late one Saturday night.
In the one-minute spot, candidate Jones earnestly told the story of Gettysburg’s Little Round Top battlefield, where Confederate Col. William Oates of Alabama faced Union Col. Joshua Chamberlain of Maine.
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