She is currently at 55.5% of the vote with 70% of votes counted. The Wisconsin state supreme court will continue to have a democratic majority, which means no GOP gerrymandering.
I didn’t know where else to brag. At least there is some good news tonight. Also it proved to Elon that money can’t always buy elections.
A big old “Eff you” to Elon Musk.
A small but significant happy dance in your general direction. I’ll take however many wins, big or small as I can get these days. I also wonder if we’ll get the typical MAGA “stolen election/illegals-dead people voting” and if it’ll get traction with the masses.
Wisconsin is about 50/50 split between democrat and republican in voting, but of the 8 federal house seats, the GOP won 6 and the Democrats won 2.
I don’t know if there will be any map changes, to see if there could ever be new maps where the house is 4 vs 4 instead of 6 vs 2. But if so, that could open up 2 extra house seats. Considering the GOP house majority is only 1-2 votes, that is important.
Happy April Fools to a Year-round one.
I read that the current court refused to hear a case about whether Musk’s million dollar checks to petition signers are legal, because they didn’t want to get in the middle of that political battle, especially if Crawford won.
Yeah, every victory is crucial. This is an especially good one.
Found at Bluesky:
I heard the slogan was “A vote for Brad is a vote for Trump” and therefore, Wisconsin voters let their opinions be heard! Some precincts actually ran out of ballots, and (surprise surprise!) the loser conceded amicably!
You’re welcome!
I was an election worker here in La Crosse (third bluest county yesterday in the state, after Milwaukee and Madison’s county), where we also ejected our first Black mayor.
We had a steady stream of voters mist of the day, including quite a few new, young registrants. I could tell from the kinds of folks who showed up to vote (skewed toward the more educated) that it was going to be a good night for Crawford.
I think the final motivating straw for many was Musk’s blatant attempt to buy our votes.
ETA: Nice sinulpost, my friend across the river!
Also, Jill Underlay won for State School Superintendent – also technically non partisan but each was backed by a party.
Also, La Crosse elected it’s first Black mayor (also first openly LGBQ+ mayor). This is also non partisan. I’m not sure how far right his(not sure of pronoun) opponent is (@JKellyMap -any input?) but Washington-Spivey was the lefter one.
Brian
You’re welcome!
I was an election worker here in La Crosse (third bluest county yesterday in the state, after Milwaukee and Madison’s county), where we also elected our first Black mayor.
We had a steady stream of voters most of the day, including quite a few new, young registrants. I could tell from the kinds of folks who showed up to vote (skewed toward the more educated) that it was going to be a good night for Crawford.
I think the final motivating straw for many was Musk’s blatant attempt to buy our votes.
ETA: Nice simulpost, my friend across the river! (Brian lives in a Minnesota town adjacent to La Crosse).
Shaundel’s opponent was moderately liberal, but a NIMBY on community empathy and support issues.
Correction, the position Jill Underlay won was Superintendent of Public Instruction, not State School Superintendent.
Yes-- the FU to Musk was so great to see. There were outside millions on both sides, but he spent more than all others combined.
I am also so glad to stop seeing ads (it has been crazy with multiple each commercial break)
Brian
I voted for the losers. But I knew when Musk started handing out money it wasn’t going to end well. That sort of thing just comes across as hella sleazy and rubs people the wrong way.
She was behind when I checked last night, I was glad to see she won when I checked this morning. The “Should WI require an ID to vote” got more than 60% ‘yes’ votes, but that wasn’t really a surprise. For most people, especially if they don’t follow politics that closely, the ‘common sense’ answer to “Should a photo ID to vote be required” is yes.
I extend thanks to my wife and the other activists who worked tirelessly to get out the vote in support of Crawford and Underlay, for these additional quanta of solace here in Wisconsin. (My first such quantum was the fact that in November Senator Tammy Baldwin was re-elected even as Trump carried the state).
I would save those for the next Bond referendum.
(Congratulations, Wisconsinites!)
While I’m as happy as anyone that she won, all the crowing over how “Wisconsin voters can’t be bought” is somewhat mitigated by the millions that George Soros poured into the race. It wasn’t exactly a David vs Goliath sort of win. Still. . .fuck you, Musk.
Even with Soros money, the money advantage was much bigger for the Maga/Musk Republicans.
Musk and his packs spent almost 20 million while Soros spent about 2 million.
MAGA/Musk still lost… tha bums…
And Soros’ money, I presume, was used for legitimate election campaign stuff like advertisement and get out the vote efforts. Not bribes to voters.
MAGA/Musk MAGA/Musk they did do the Fandango.. **
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** Webster also defines Fandango (besides being a dance) as: tomfoolery: playful or foolish behavior…