First random thoughts
I'm pretty tired so this post will be very random. But going to bed late and happy on election night is a much better than late and deflated.
Thank goodness we will still have Doyle. He may actually get to do more than block shots from the Republicans now that the senate went our way.
Very happy for my friends in the state senate. Few believed that they could do it, but I always knew they could.
Hats off to my friends in the Assembly for getting the important work done early of recruiting quality candidates in every race they could win. It paid off big. I'm sure lots of people thought my five seat pick up prediction was shear madness. Who would have thought I was low balling it?
Do we really have a state treasurer that handed out matchbooks with the phrase "Get off your ass and vote for Sass?" during one election? I guess so. Hilarious.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel gets their wish of Doyle constantly needled by J.B. Van Hollen for the next four years. Thanks WMC. Dem groups left Falk hanging out their by herself and now they have Van Hollen as a reward. Super. Bright side, the Repubs are probably stuck with Van Hollen as a candidate for governor.
Women win big! We have the first female Speaker of the House. Women can correctly claim that they delivered Doyle. There are new women heading to D.C. And the near total ban on abortion went down in South Dakota. Keep flexing those muscles ladies. There is so much more to do.
If any Dem leaning groups besides labor had spent some money on the assembly in Wisconsin the Dems could have taken over. Really. There are a number of races that were decided by less than one percent and incumbents went down that few thought were in trouble.
My favorite one is Rep. Kreibich. Not only did Senator Zien's mailer trying to confuse people about his challenger Kreitlow not work in Zien's race, apparently Kreibich should have been working on his own. How much money do you think Kreibich and Rep. Freese have in the bank today?
And now who jumps into the race for Speaker with Rep. Huebsch? His election is no longer a done deal after last night.
How many shredders do you think are running in the White House right now in anticipation of Democrat subpoena power?
I hate that a more conservative state, Arizona, beat a gay marriage amendment but we couldn't do it here. The youth of Wisconsin will have to start changing that starting today.
And speaking of gay rights, what do you think Congressman Green's kids will think of his gay bashing mailer when they are older and have gay friends. I think dad will have a tough time explaining that one.
The death penalty referendum won, but not by as much as I thought it would. That gives me hope. Plus, Senator Lasee's bill that he would have pushed hard if the Republicans retained controlled is never going to see the light of day now. And that's a good thing for our state.
Oh it's a happy day for sure.
posted by whatsleftwi @ 8:48 AM
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I can't wait to see the ward totals on this one, I think the marriage amendment cost Kreibich his seat. This was a 300 vote margin. The dorm turnout was up over 700 votes from the last midterm and even went past the turnout two years ago. The near west side of Eau Claire turnout was also very, very heavy although I don't have any numbers. But again, it was likely that student turnout was driving it. This is a group that Fair Wisconsin worked a ton and is a very one sided voting demographic. I am sure that the Yes side brought some voters that wouldn't otherwise have shown up. But it is hard to imagine that it was on a similar scale. Heh!
But I really want to see the ward totals.
How ironic is it that the Dems picked up 7, maybe 8 seats, and yet Brett Davis wasn't even one of them?
I know. But I consider that a good thing for 2008. We picked up some of the harder ones like the open Ward seat and now can go and get some of the seats that are really good on the numbers for us like Davis.
"like Davis."
Or Moulton. Mike Turner ran a campaign on nothing, no money, hardly any volunteers, nothing. Two hamsters in every cage and barely that. Kreitlow and Vinehout sucked up everything, and Smith had dibs on the crumbs. Turner got outspent 3 to 1 and still hit 49% That's how close Eau Claire came to flipping four seats.
Did anyone notice?
The ONLY reason Turner did that good is that he was dimissed early by the GOP as a non-candidate...ever hear him? He is a talking points memo. Let's not ever go to the UW-Eau Claire campus "weinergate", or is that Werthmanngate, scandal-- that isn't over yet. Had the DEMS taken Turner seriously, and actually helped the guy, maybe the results would have been different. Yard signs just don't cut it-- Mike is a nice guy, but about as personable as a stick. The DEMS had Zien and Brown in their sights from the get go, and that's all "Robson's Rebels" could think of. OK kids, now you have the Senate, and we've heard nothing but yak for a year plus. Starting January 3rd, you had damn well better start delivering on all the lip service.
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