2016 Postmortem
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(141,892 posts)Not Your Grandmothers Wisconsin
*As much as Mr. Trump won the election in Wisconsin, Hillary Clinton lost it. Her campaign, which prided itself on employing all the data wizards and ground game gurus money can buy, did not do nearly enough to lock down the upper Midwest, particularly Wisconsin and Michigan, and instead treated those states as a given.
Paul Soglin is the mayor of Madison, Wisconsins capital city, in cerulean Dane County. He supported Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary, and said he talked at least once a week with a field organizer from the Sanders campaign during the primary. But once Mrs. Clinton locked up the nomination, it was radio silence from the Clinton campaign.
Since I first held elected office in the early 70s, virtually every presidential election, Ive been contacted, either by the candidate or by a staffer, he told me. Im not saying this to say Im important. But the point is, not only wasnt she in the state, but I never got a call, a contact, anything after the primary.'>>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/opinion/campaign-stops/not-your-grandmothers-wisconsin.html?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016171309
Many in Milwaukee Neighborhood Didnt Vote and Dont Regret It.
MILWAUKEE Four barbers and a firefighter were pondering their future under a Trump presidency at the Upper Cutz barbershop last week.
We got to figure this out, said Cedric Fleming, one of the barbers. We got a gangster in the chair now, he said, referring to President-elect Donald J. Trump.
They admitted that they could not complain too much: Only two of them had voted. But there were no regrets.
I dont feel bad, Mr. Fleming said, trimming a mustache. Milwaukee is tired. Both of them were terrible. They never do anything for us anyway. . .
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016171204