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And still the DNC does not release the official autopsy report of how their incumbent ticket lost in 2024 and why 6,265,888 of their former supporters stayed home on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024 rather than vote for Dummkopf Trumpf or Jill Stein.


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#9 onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut displays his/her/their complete US political ignorance by actually asking (about yesterday's Wisconsin SC vote): "This matters why?"

Meanwhile, in Wisconsin

I've been covering Wisconsin politics for several decades now, and have (at times) been deeply involved in the state's Supreme Court races. For much of that time, conservatives dominated those races and built a formidable majority on the state's High Court.

So, believe me when I tell you that this is a BFD. "Liberal Chris Taylor cruises to Wisconsin Supreme Court win."


Not only have progressives flipped the script on the court races, they have also piled up huge margins in a state that is usually on the razor's edge. Taylor won more than 60% of the vote in a state that Trump won in 2024. Liberals now have a 5-2 majority on the court. Taylor's win means liberals will control the state Supreme Court until at least 2030.

Digging down a bit, the demographic shifts carry ominous signs for Republicans. Nate Cohn writes: "Liberal candidates have fared well in Wisconsin Supreme Court elections in recent years, but Chris Taylor's victory tonight was even bigger. She swept many reliably Republican working class areas " and might even crack the traditionally conservative suburban counties around Milwaukee." Democrats are also noting that 12 counties that went red in 2025's election swung blue last night.

As we've seen elsewhere, the Latino vote seems to have shifted to the left, while the liberal candidate won former GOP strongholds like Ozaukee County (where I live).

So, as usual, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut is left with ...

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