Bradley's win means Walker wins in 2018, right?

[lutefisk]

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Teh stupid simply outnumbers the smart in Wisconsin. We're completely screwn. No matter what we do, that's not gonna change. And with the dumbing down of k-12 and public higher ed, how's that ever going to change. Good Lord!

[Iliyah]

1. I feel for state, but als you did mentioned the "S vs S" words

and the ugly one won.

[Still In Wisconsin]

2. Yeah, it's pretty much a done deal. Walker just won re-election in 2018.

If Democrats (not us personally on DU but in general) can't be bothered to come out and vote then this is what we get.

Some people like things that are bad for them. Wisconsin, apparently, likes Walker. I work in the UW System, and I can tell you as an insider, the next five years ain't gonna be pretty regardless of who is Governor. A lot of damage has been done and is either irreversible or would take decades to repair.

Many people on our side of the political fence, I think, have basically given up. Walker's poll numbers are surging again, and Ron Johnson has erased two thirds of Feingold's lead in only a month. I'd move away if I could, but my current life situation does not allow.

Still, Minnesota seems like it would be nice. You still get to see the Packers on TV twice every year, right?

[AllyCat]

3. More Republicans than Democrats voted yesterday. We are a red state.

More Walker, WI goes red in November, our state will be the next to push through one of those hateful discrimination bills.

[ewagner]

5. Wood County ....

once a Dem stronghold went Repub by a good margin...

I think the top of the Republican ticket (Trump and Cruz) drove the " low information" voters to the polls and it affected every race down the ticket....

I'm flabbergasted!

[MillennialDem]

7. WI goes red in November? LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL no that's not going to happen

[a kennedy]

4. What the H*LL happened to my birth State??? D*mn.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

6. It means voter suppression works - lets wait to see some analysis of that, just how much damage has

been done by the voter suppression tactics that are now in place - that study done earlier this yr said it could be mean up to 300,000 fewer votes for liberal/left candidates.

That alone is enough to account for Lil Ms. Bradley and for significantly less Dem voters showing up to vote this time around. Massive amts of smear advertising helps too.

Notice that it was not the 50-50 split that we saw in previous years. The goal all along and why the far right big money focuses on these purple swing states (Ohio, MI, WI, etc) is to get them to be reliably red all the time.

[ewagner]

8. So do negative ads...

Look at this other post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1084&pid=19121

[Greybnk48]

9. Yes, and no one will do a fucking thing about it.

This is all so frustrating! I don't know what CAN be done because this isn't my area of expertise, but to allow these fuckers to steal one election after another in Wisconsin, with one dirty trick after another and no one does ANYTHING! Even when that psychotic bitch was running some of the vote tabulation out of her frucking basement or some such shit! JFC!! We were told by some to be quiet, there was no cheating. Right.

I've just fucking had it. We're stuck with this racist, bigoted pig for 10 years?!

[midnight]

10. 2010 redistricting they engineered used “packing” and “cracking” to frustrate the will of the voters

2010 redistricting they engineered used “packing” and “cracking” to frustrate the will of the voters: Some liberal-leaning seats were packed with an overwhelming percentage of Democrats, and others were cracked apart to create districts that leaned just rightward enough to make them safe for Republicans.
The result was that the average Democratic Assembly winner needed 37,300 votes to win office, and the average Republican winner needed only 23,166 votes.
Republicans have argued they simply redistricted as Democrats did in the past. In fact, a split Legislature drew the lines in 1971, and disagreements between the parties led to the courts making the decisions in 1981, 1991 and 2001. The result in all four cases was redistricting that had little or no edge for either party. (And prior to 1970, the Republicans always held power in Wisconsin.)
Indeed, a new study by Simon Jackman, a political statistician at Stanford University, puts Wisconsin’s situation into stunning perspective. Jackman set out to measure the “efficiency gap” — the ratio of one party’s wasted vote rate to the other party’s wasted vote rate — over the last 42 years. Because complete data was not available in some states, he had to eliminate nine states. The result was an analysis of the efficiency gap in 786 state legislative elections in 41 states from 1972 to 2014.
- See more at: http://isthmus.com/opinion/opinion/wisconsin-gerrymandered-election-districts/#sthash.7iGjpGLg.s7Xeeh4U.dpuf


http://isthmus.com/opinion/opinion/wisconsin-gerrymandered-election-districts/


I think this issue needs to be revisted.

[Still In Wisconsin]

11. The Republican Party of Wisconsin has (with a LOT of outside help and cash) been VERY effective

in winning at all cost. Not that I admire them for it- I don't- but they have shown themselves to be very good at what they do. The state Dem. party, under the direction of the comically inept Mike Tate, has been utterly incompetent. He thought a winning strategy in 2014 was to run Mary Burke- a candidate I came to like personally but who nobody in the state knew- against the Koch-financed Walker machine. He also thought it a good plan to focus solely on turning out voters in Milwaukee and Madison, while ceding the rest of the state to Walker.

Thankfully, Tate is no longer on the payroll of the state party. Will Martha Lanning be better? Time will tell.