Chronically depressed Republican turnout for one. In a heavily GOP State Senate district near mine, a State Rep heavily favored to win a recent special election took it by just 2% over a non-entity Dem in a district he won by over 50% of the vote in Nov 2016.
57,000 votes went to the GOP State Senator in WI-10 in Nov 2016, while apparently just 9,900 voted for the GOP State Rep running for her seat this evening. The Dem won with 12,250 votes (while the Dem running in Nov ‘16 got 33,000). So do the math and see the Dems got 1/3rd+ of their voters mobilized while the GOP could barely get over 1/6th of theirs. That’s appalling.
Republicans need to wake up or there will be no chance to get any more of the agenda through after November.
Americans for Prosperity (yep, Koch Bros) donated quite a big chunk to this WI race, to no avail.
What groups are out there working to get the Repub base fired up, if Pubbie leadership is bringing everyone down? Any?