05 April 2023

Thought For The Day - 5 April 2023 [we have the numbers]

What Wisconsin demonstrates is that if you allow everybody to vote, not just white, rural, rightwingnut, knuckleheads you find that these United States are not, and never have been, a Right Wing country. It isn't. Most folks, even the uneducated, understand that one way to run a damn gummint is to promote the general welfare of all citizens. Not just the 1%.

[update]
Now we have some numbers:
Protasiewicz - 55.5%
Kelly        - 44.5% 
That's an 11 point drubbing. Landslide by most metrics.
Mandates are the product of landslide victories, a margin of 10 percentage points or more in presidential politics.
1,839,656 total votes. That's a record. Mad Dictator Don finally told the truth.
And not cheap, either:
Spending in the campaign shattered the previous national record for a state supreme court election.
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The race shattered the previous national record for spending in a state Supreme Court race. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, the old record of $15.2 million was set in a 2004 race for the Illinois Supreme Court. According to the center's tracking, nearly $29 million had been spent on political ads in Wisconsin's race. Another running tally by the Wisconsin political news site WisPolitics found total spending on the race had hit $45 million.


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