Discussion: Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Becomes Latest Partisan Battleground

With so much at stake, there are no run-of-the mill races anymore. Then again, I never thought there were. But apparently many did.

Hope this administration solves that misconception for a generation or two.

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Wisconsin Supreme Court races have been vicious partisan battlegrounds for years. Indeed, the WI Supreme Court itself is a battleground.

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2011/06/28/137480847/wisconsins-alleged-high-court-choking-incident-gets-two-probes

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Just so I understandā€¦ it is perfectly ok for Republicans to take millions and millions of dollars of Dark Moneyā€¦ money we have no idea of who it came fromā€¦ but but if a Democrat takes money (that is in the open and declared) and an (omg) endorsementā€¦ suddenly its not ok and it is interference?

Flaming hypocrites.

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Awesome comment and great perspective. Iā€™ve been saying for years all Americans should have mandatory military or civil service. Preferably in a region of the country they currently donā€™t reside in, and more preferably with people of vastly different backgrounds. The liberal from CA and the conservative from AL might learn they arenā€™t so different, and that would be a good thing.

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you got it

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I think the big question isā€¦at what point will GOTPers ā€œdiscoverā€ a couple thousand extra votes to juuuuust overcome the margin?

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April 2011.

ā€˜ā€˜In a shocking twist, a clerk in a conservative Wisconsin county announced Thursday that she had discovered a net gain of 7,582 votes for an embattled conservative Supreme Court justice, a total that would make him the winner of an election in which his challenger declared victory Wednesday.ā€™ā€™

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Oh, Iā€™m well aware.

They got away with it once, why not again?

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You know, for a party that claims to be against judicial activism, Republicans sure want an awful lot of it.

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Iā€™m against men dating much younger women. You know, unless itā€™s me. Then I can find a way to justify it.

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ā€œAs I always say, first you must derp before you can herp.ā€

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Agree until sending people to ā€˜opposite statesā€™ - sounds too much like the great leap forward. Letā€™s send doctors to the rice paddies and peasants to laboratories! Thereā€™s plenty of good to be done in oneā€™s own region whoever and wherever you are.

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Iā€™m glad that Missouri has judges selected by the Appellate Judicial Commission, voters in MO only get to retain after a year on the bench or dismiss. The Missouri Plan seems to take the crazy of seating judges.

Thatā€™s what Waukesha County is for.

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ā€¦ seems to take the crazy out of seating judges?

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I remember that. Nothing suspicious about it at all.

That sounds like a terrible idea, who suggested sending doctors to rice paddies and peasants to laboratories!!

I donā€™t think itā€™s enough to just do mandatory military or civil service. It needs to be in a setting where people who donā€™t normally interact get a chance to meet each other. California, meet Alabama. Alabama, meet California.

Could easily be, ā€œSan Francisco, meet Fresno ā€“ Fresno, this is San Franciscoā€; or, ā€œDavis, meet Bakersfield ā€“ Bakersfield, Iā€™d like you to meet Davisā€.

that right there is an excellent point.