How come Feingold(WI) lost re-election in 2010 while other vulnerable Democratic US Senators

[nkpolitics1212]

up for re-election in 2010 like Bennet(CO) and Reid(NV) won re-election?

Bennet and Reid’s 2010 Republican opponent Buck(CO) and Angle(NV) were extremely crazy.
Are WI Independent voters saying Johnson(WI) is not crazy like Buck and Angle?
Johnson is also corrupt. Do the WI Independent voters prefer a Crazy/Corrupt/Conservative over a Liberal 3 term US Senator that is very ethical?

I hope the WI Independent voters don’t make the same mistake in 2022 like they did in 2010 and 2016.

[emulatorloo]

1. Koch Bros $$$$$$ + Tea-Bag idiocy

You may remember the election of Koch-owned Governor Scott Walker as well.

[TheRealNorth]

2. A lot of money and negative advertising....

Convinced Democratic voters to stay home.

And racism works well in WI. There is a reason that the Milwaukee suburbs are the most racially segregated in the country.

That's why Johnson has gone Willie Horton on Mandela Barnes.

[emulatorloo]

3. Kochs were very very good at lie ads

Basically dumping Raw Sewage on the airwaves.

Fwiw the remaining Koch Bro is currently funding a study to discover why politics is so polarized. He should just look in the mirror.

[TheRealNorth]

5. Yup

As long as they don't say "vote for x", they can spend as much as they wanted to bash Democrats.

[Tetrachloride]

4. Republicans are loud and want every evil headline. Feingold wasn't loud.

Wis Dem GOTV has been underwater most years. which is to say, where was it ? Literally, where ? point on a map.

The Republican churches are coordinated.

[nkpolitics1212]

6. Democrats need a very strong GOTV operations in every state especially in WI,OH,NC,NV,GA,and FL.

WI,OH,NC,NV,GA, and FL are battleground states with Tossup US Senate Races.

[TigressDem]

7. Gerrymandering.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-most-serious-challenge-to-gerrymandering-in-modern-times-reaches-the-supreme-court/

LOOK AT THE MAPS

https://www.thenation.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=896,quality=80,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Wisconsin-gerrymandering-rtr-img.png



COURTS ACTUALLY DID SOME DAMAGE CONTROL in 2020

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/politics/us-redistricting/wisconsin-redistricting-map/

[jimfields33]

8. Gerrymandering has nothing to do with senator races

[questionseverything]

9. Personally I think it's because they cheat

Joanne kloppenberg won the sc justice race then two days later Kathy nicklous “found” A city of votes she forgot to include in her “ total “ that she kept on her personal laptop

So wooshbob the rep won

The recount was a mess with open, unlabeled bags of ballots, the only thing that could be proven was Wisconsin elections are a mess

Brad blog had full details

When tfg accused democrats of cheating it was pure projection