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Good to see Elonia’s attempts wasted. Gg Wisconsin.
I live in Wisconsin. This morning was the busiest I've seen the voting locations, even beating 2024. I'm so relieved she won.
Funnily enough there was a guy who had a gigantic TRUMP 2024 sign out last year and suspiciously had...no sign out for Schimel. Lots of Crawford signs though.
Edit: Dane County (where Madison, the capitol is) had a nearly 70% turnout ON AN OFF YEAR. Absolutely insane!
That’s one of the things I noticed in my part of the state too (northwest). Lots of Crawford signs, few trump signs. That says a lot because we’re very red out here
In my country, that would mean 30% of the voting population would have to pay a fine (for not voting).
Such a low bar
Happy to see that voters can play him for money like he thinks he's playing then for votes.
Except he never gave anyone $1M, it was donated to republican groups. The whole thing is basically fraud from start to finish.
So nothing new to report ;)
Let’s fucking go!!!!! Eat shit you oligarch bitch!!
as a wisconsinite, you're welcome lol. i was very worried. Schimel was leading and i became despondent and stopped watching. very happy things turned around. however, the voter ID passed and that shit pisses me off.
Voter ID is blatant voter suppression and I'm so disappointed that so many people just accept it with zero critical thought, when republicans have flat out admitted that it benefits them in elections
yup, it's frustrating as hell. it sounds like it makes sense though, so many people just accept it without thinking. there are far more voters who become suppressed because of voter ID laws than any voter ID law has prevented or stopped illegal voting. it's ridiculous. i beg of liberals to just fucking do any research about it at all, please.
Good news, everybody!
Great news, we need any win we can get.
But Florida lost to the republicans, by a decent margin. We can chock it off as just being Florida, but it's still telling. Given everything that's happening, people are still voting republican. Don't get complacent, I guess.
*In deep red districts. Like R+33 red
Dems overperformed by like 20 points. They probably would have outperformed more if Republicans didn't notice the close polling and start pouring millions into the race
Yes, don't be complacent, but don't look at it strictly in a binary way
Another thing is, I believe, that it wasn't dems showing up to vote, the shift in margin was Republicans voting for democrats. If that's really the case that's huge, cause it doesn't mean Republicans are disengaged, they're starting to work against the current admin.
Both appear to be happening in the specials lately
Higher comparative dem turnout and some degree of persuasion is likely
Can't directly tell because individual votes are anonymous, but you can tell what party a voter is registered with in some states.
Generally seeing higher turnout among registered dems and margins large enough to suggest that many independent and likely some Republicans are shifting their votes
Yep I understand and totally agree. The details matter.
But ya know, it's just dissapointing. Having dems actually win in those districts would have been huge. But it's not surprising.
Tomorrow's Elon meltdown is going to be so yummy 🍿
One of two things: Elon will either spend more money or stop spending money.
In other news, Elon has ignored this issue and focused solely on Voter ID.
Musk is like the evil wizard in a children's show. He hopes to turn the smurfs into gold while grownups vote for the actual constitution.
They spent an obscene amount, used horrible scare tactics, lied, slandered, and bribed people into voting for their pro-Trump shill and after all that, they lost in a blowout.
This was a must win, and Wisconsin came through for us. Not only will this help protect the rule of law in Wisconsin, but it could very well determine the outcome of both the mid terms and potentially even the next presidential election. Or at least, it likely prevented the other guy from letting the Republicans get away with blatant voter suppression and gerrymandering that they almost certainly would have reinstituted once they controlled the courts again.
What are the odds Trump signs an executive order saying "Schimel won"?
Schimel already conceded and said that they had to respect election results. (To a booing crowd of supporters)
Kind of something that what used to be 100% standard by all is now suprising
Gonna be fun to see if any of those checks clear.
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