Yesterday we had heavy snow. There are 6 inches outside my door at the moment, even though my husband shoveled off a couple earlier yesterday so we could navigate the homestead. Thee is even more snow in other areas.
Other elections: school board: 3 candidates for 3 seats. Some unopposed positions. ONE liberal Supreme Court judge (a conservative court with a conservative Chief Justice) does not flip a state.
Walker is great. He’s survived more than a couple of recalls and years of prog retaliation for voter ID, Right To Work and lower taxes. Each time, the progs declared victory before the fact. Each time, they mobilized their people into the streets. Each time, they lost. Yes, there are lawsuits against voter ID. Voter ID lawsuits have been overturned everywhere and Voter ID continues to expand.
Yesterday was weather-related. I see and hear raw anger and disgust for the progs daily. People will turn out when it counts. I’m waiting for the final DHS voter maps from 2016 to finally be released. I saw the preliminary one and even my blue county (so-called *official* results) was mostly red, in reality.
Walker is being motivational, IMO.
I agree that Walker is probably just trying to motivate the right. Snow would not have been the only factor. From several states away and less than 10 minutes of research:
(1) the conservative candidate (Michael Screnock) does not even have a wikipedia page . . . who the heck was running his campaign?
(2) Screnock graduated from law school in 2006, was a lawyer in private practice until appointed judge in a county with a population of 55,225 in 2015, and won reelection once (unopposed).
Even if conservatives viewed Rebecca Dallet as “disqualified” by openly liberal views, she had experience as a clerk for a U.S. Magistrate Judge, an assistant U.S. Attorney, assistant district attorney, and as an adjunct professor at Marquette’s law school. Moreover, she had been a Judge in Milwaukee since 2008 (two years before Screnock graduated from law school), twice winning elections in a County that has more people than dairy cows.
Baraboo may be fun to say, but it is not the type of city that would provide Screnock a great base of voters for state-wide office.