BTRTN Wisconsin Primary Preview: What if They Held an Election and Nobody Showed Up? [View all]

[reggieandlee]

Born To Run The Numbers provides its prediction about the Wisconsin Primary. Yes, Wisconsin is holding a primary today..actual in-person, polling-sites-open primary. Find out why Republicans are insisting this crazy election go on in the face of COVID-19 here:

http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2020/04/btrtn-wisconsin-primary-preview-what-if.html

Excerpts: "It may come as a surprise to you that there is a primary today, in Wisconsin. An actual in-person, polling-sites-open primary. This is in a state that issued a statewide shelter-at-home order on March 25. How is this possible? If the Iowa caucuses were a textbook study of how to screw up an election, then the Wisconsin primary is the poster child for how not to deal with an election in the face of the coronavirus crisis. In a nutshell, initially neither the Democratic governor nor the Republican-controlled legislature much wanted a 'mail-in only' election. And by the time the governor, Tony Evers, changed his mind, he could not get the legislature to agree to postpone the election or go for full mail-in. So he went to the courts for relief...There have been more zigs and zags here than in a typical Donald Trump coronavirus press conference...
"Everyone knows Biden is going to win big except for Bernie Sanders’ most zealous supporters. Certainly Sanders himself has no illusions. On the other hand, it is hard to be sure about Sanders, since he has not been seen since he told reporters to buzz off about his campaign 'assessment.' ('I’m trying to deal with a fucking global crisis.') That was on March 18. I’ve been watching a lot of TV of late. Seen a lotta Cuomo. Too much Trump. Even a little bit of Biden. Sanders? Not one sighting..."