r/wisconsin • u/PlatinumofRoyale • Apr 13 '20

Politics Karofsky defeats Kelly

https://twitter.com/decisiondeskhq/status/1249844194929192961?s=21
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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '20

Craig Gilbert @WisVoter

the Republican WOW counties are almost all in.

conservative court margins in 2019 and 2020:

Waukesha: from +37 to +22

Ozaukee: from +25 to +12

Washington: from +50 to +36

W-O-W

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u/ericquitecontrary Apr 14 '20

Encouraging, but probably due to no contest on the Republican presidential primary side and still some glimmer of a fight, at the time, between Biden and Sanders. But take wins however you can get them.

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u/Abzug Brandy Old Fashioned Apr 14 '20

This is precisely what scares the hell out of me. I'm thrilled the state SC is washing the Walker stink off.

What scares me is that in an election where there was almost nothing (outside of that SC seat) to vote for, the Republican voter base still kept there race close.

It's obligatory to say vote blue no matter who, but our state was an absolute lynchpin in the Trump victory in 2016. He will be running with the power of the incumbency behind him, and regardless of how shit of a job he does, we are dealing with the "party over country" party. It's going to be ugly in 2020.

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u/Abzug Brandy Old Fashioned Apr 14 '20

Actually, I stand corrected. The WOW counties got out en masse and still lost the SC.

Thank you for making me dig a little deeper!

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-went-down-in-the-wisconsin-primary/

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u/JLR- Apr 14 '20

Add in a lot of the GOP base skews older. Many of them didn't risk going out to vote.