Kathleen Vinehout - the next Governor of Wisconsin!

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38. The Democratic Coalition

The candidate the democrats nominate needs to be able to fire up the core constituencies and be able to articulate a message to the non ideological independent voters, and be able to motivate the passive democratic leaning constituencies who do not always vote. Will the students and the constituencies effected by the new voter id law show up to vote? In last summers round of recalls these constituencies did not show up at all in some of the Senate Districts, let alone have marginal turnout. The constituencies not showing up were the Obama voter from 2008, and the demographic of the student protesters who were all over the state last February and March in unprecedented numbers.

Last year around this time when we occupied the capitol, there was a very diverse/dynamic coalition. Rev. Jesse Jackson was the best speaker I saw come to the capitol. He was calming force, the Republicans did not go negative on him, and Jesse really delivered on giving a great speech with an articulate message. The message I liked was "Rich Americans get a Tax Cut, Working Americans get a Job Cut". Having working people, low income voters are going to be key to if the Democrats can win an election against Governor Walker.

The stump is going to be important for this campaign, we are not going to win or get our message out with the 30 second television ads. For Democrats to win this governors election we need to have presidential turnout, and it would be good for Democrats in Wisconsin to look at how the Presidential Campaigns go after these voters who have no traditional constituency groups.