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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Republicans' racist attack ads wiped out Democrat's lead in Wisconsin
OP's comment: I love that the Guardian calls it exactly what it is.
(Guardian UK) After months of flinging mud, Senator Ron Johnson was finally obliged to admit that his Democratic opponent in the upper midwestern state of Wisconsin had never actually made a call to defund the police.
But that did not stop the Trumpist senators re-election drive from continuing to broadcast racially charged advertisements falsely claiming that Mandela Barnes, the lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, rationalized violence against the police and tying him to the most controversial positions of Black Lives Matter.
Barnes and his supporters dismiss the ads as evidence of Johnsons desperation. But the campaign of race and fear has had an impact as an election that Barnes once looked to have in the bag is now too close to call.
Across the country, Republican strategists have ratcheted up attacks on Democrats over fears of crime as the midterm elections approach with predictable results in many races. But Barnes, who is running to become Wisconsins first Black senator and is named after South Africas iconic former president, is on the end of a particularly pointed campaign that has eaten into a once substantial lead in the final weeks of a race that could decide control of the US Senate.
Theres definitely a racial overtone, said Charles Franklin, director of the respected Marquette law school polling of Wisconsin voters. ...............(more)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/04/wisconsin-republicans-racist-attack-ads-democrat-mandela-barnes
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How Republicans' racist attack ads wiped out Democrat's lead in Wisconsin (Original Post)
marmar
Nov 2022
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gab13by13
(21,349 posts)1. Any other proof other than a poll?
MOMFUDSKI
(5,546 posts)2. I talked to a friend in Wisconsin today
and asked him if he was going to vote. He said prolly but no real urgency. Multiply him by a bazillion other uninformed folks and it is all up for ground grabs. They have no idea what could happen to their lives in a hurry. They will, of course, have lots of time to reflect on how they screwed up their futures by being lazy/uninformed. It is very unsettling to me.