It is. And yes, I too remember that article! And the reason? Low voter turnout. Some WI elections have had single-digit turnout. People in Wisconsin didn’t vote and now it’s too late.
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--Evil Triumphs When Good Women**Do Nothing--
**and men
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They feel it, because all evidence points to the fact that what they think, is wrong. So the only thing left is to feel it.
It’s like that Joe Rogan spot where he fact-checks himself in real time to find out he’s spewing bullshit… then the other guy says “I feel like because it seemed true it is true.” (or something along those lines).
It’s just a different way of saying, “I will believe what I believe, regardless of any evidence.” They just feel it.
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Can you provide any source? I’ve never heard anything remotely like that, unless you’re referring to school board primaries or such.
Recent presidential election turnouts in Wisconsin:
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2020 — 72.3%
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2016 — 67.3%
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2012 — 70.4%
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2008 — 69.2%
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2004 — 72.9%
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2000 — 67%
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Look at the off-year elections. Voting only in Presidential elections is how dems lost control of everything
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That’s what I’ve been asking for a while, using Mike Pence as my example. What happens when they just declare victory, not the candidate, but the official machinery people, for someone who has clearly lost an election?
Because if the response is points of order and lawsuits we lose and our representative democratic republic just died.
What if Kevin McCarthy just declares himself to be Speaker of the House, grabs the gavel and knocks Nancy off the podium, and gavels in a new Congress of Republicans not really elected but declared winner? Anyone going to do something? Sergeant at Arms going to arrest Kevin? Will Hoyer and Schiff and Raskin and Porter and AOC and the rest going to take action and fight back? Coz you know those gopper thugs will be there, cowards that they are, beating up on an old woman is right up Jordan’s and Gosar’s and Gaetz and Greene’s and Bobo’s alley.
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Please, where are the single-digit turnouts?
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Exactly. If we don’t start thinking about how to respond to the audacity that they’re clearly prepping for, we’re done. They couldn’t be telegraphing it more clearly. I’d like to think they’re ready and we just don’t know it. But I most assuredly wonder. This stuff is coming, probably 2024, but maybe sooner. Gonna get worse before it gets better.
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Seriously, think about it. If 2018 was record-breaking that right there tells you it was anomalous. Again, WI voters didn’t start voting until it was too late.
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Wow. Can’t refute logic like that.
I’m still curious about the single-digit turnouts, buy I guess that’s for another time.
Bye.
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emiliano, I really really want to believe that will be the case.
Who’s going to be the Closer on this thing, do we know? Because it goddam better be someone good, and effective. I want Goose Gossage in his day, or Hell’s Bells when he still had a fastball to go with the changeup, ya know.
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I always had the opinion about the people of Wisconsin as being honest. Either they changed or I was totally deluded.
Offhand, 2014 turnout was ~11%. I’m not in the mood to go dig out links for every Wisconsin election. You only looked at Presidential. Wisconsin holds elections every year
Apparently the “fuck your feelings” mantra has found its limits among the MAGA faithful.
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Scott Walker has been out of office for three years. The GQP lege has the State supreme court in its pocket, so anything the current governor (who defeated Walker pretty soundly) does that they disagree with, the lege starts a lawsuit and the court ultimately decides for the lege and not the governor. It’s been the way of things here for a couple of years.
We’re about to re-elect the governor, since gerrymandering has no influence on the governor’s election, along with kicking Ron Johnson to the curb as Senator, making our representation in the Senate 100% Democrat.
If I sound pretty optimistic about this, it’s because I’m getting word from right wing friends that they don’t want Ron in office anymore either.
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Turnouts of which are probably a whole lot better than in most States.
We do ok. It’s gerrymandering that we, as voters, can’t fix.
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“Offhand, 2014 turnout was ~11%…”
From Ballotopedia referencing 2014:
- Maine (58.5 percent), Wisconsin (56.5 percent), and Colorado (54.5 percent) were the three states with the highest turnout.
I also responded per 2018.
I’m sorry that you’re not ‘in the mood’ to provide any links to your source.
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Wisconsin is one of the great examples of the power of gerrymandering.
The SCOTUS says this kind of political fuckery is perfectly fine.
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Best news I have had today, @becca656
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