Wisconsin Supreme Court race: Democrat Lisa Neubauer leading 52-48

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[TheRealNorth]

1. A lot of the outlying Republican-heavy counties seem to be coming in slow

Are the Republican's waiting in Walworth & Marathon to see how many votes they need to make? Hopefully, Milwaukee Co. is still waiting to drop the absentee-vote bomb.

[Bettie]

3. Or Waukesha county will "find"

just the right number of votes to flip it at the last minute!

[stuffmatters]

5. My expectation as well.

[Bettie]

9. I grew up in Waukesha

it used to be a bastion of blue collar union workers rather than the right wing cesspool it has turned into.

[stuffmatters]

11. I remember Clerk Nicholaus rigging returns twice there.Yesterday Milwaukee's looking fishy to me

Those two narrow state elections (Walker recall & judge) she so suspiciously flipped the results. Even the Trump election, Waukesha was one of those GOP,Cambridge Analytica heavily targeted counties to swing the national votes.
Today's Waukesha County to me is a sad, powerful example of a Koch Bros Shock Doctrine success: Destroy a union town to control it economically and politically.

What's suspicious to me today in election totals is the extremely low Dem turnout in Milwaukee and the glaring difference between yesterday's loss and the Dem recent win in another state judge election. MSM can blame it on "low turnout," but it just does not make sense. I wonder if after Walker lost, there was one last grande Koch putsch to get Dems off the voter rolls in Dem terrain, targeting Milwaukee specifically. Something got broken in Milwaukee, not sure what , but yesterday's results re:Milwaukee make no sense.

[Bettie]

12. Yeah, I wonder what kind of voter suppression they

have going on.

I'm hoping that the WI Democrats put a big push toward voter registration and education as to what kind of ID and other rigmarole is necessary to be allowed to vote and ensure that people have that, even if it means driving bus loads of people to DMV offices!

[stuffmatters]

13. Yes, yes! So dire that we need a national Democratic program to drive voters to DMV!

[Tiggeroshii]

2. including this how many do we need to flip to take it

[TheRealNorth]

4. Its 50-50 now

with Lisa Neubauer (D) having slightly under a 10,000 vote lead.

Walworth is in - but it looks like Sheboygan has 1/3 of their precincts out plus a few other smaller counties. Some Dem votes still in Portage and Lacrosse Co, perhaps.

Racine and Kenosha leaning Republican isn't a good sign, although SW WI is breaking slightly blue. Milwaukee Co. turnout looks abysmal.

I am honestly worried that if a redistricting map goes to the WI Supreme Court after the 2020 Census - the Republicans on the Supreme Court would just approve the gerrymandered map that Vos and the Legislature come up with.

[TheRealNorth]

6. 1st take on numbers

Compared to the 2018 Gubernatorial election, as a percentage of votes it looks like Lisa Neubauer slightly outperformed Tony Evers in southwestern WI and the northern counties on the Lake Superior coast, but underperformed in the urban counties of Milwaukee, Racine, and Kenosha. The problem is that those 3 counties account for a quarter of Wisconsin's population (and probably even a larger proportion of the Democratic votes in a typical election).

[Poiuyt]

7. Hagedorn is leading Neubauer with 97% of the votes in

I thought the mood of the state was moving away from the conservatives. I sure hope the Democrats campaign hard in WI in 2020. Wisconsin could easily go to trump next year.

[a kennedy]

8. Can't believe this.....she had at least 2 - 1 advertisements over him.....

Will probably be a recount. Damn.

[BlueWI]

10. Definitely not a good result in the judge race.

The statewide lower turnouts races are hard to win. Locally in Eau Claire county, a blue island in a purple-red area, Neubauer got 58% of the vote and 4 of 5 progressive city council candidates won, including the first openly trans elected official in WI history. But we can't afford anything less than a full court press from now till 2020, and that's true nationally too.

We put the work in locally, knocked on 12,000 doors in a city of 65,000. And we still took some losses. It shows us what it will take to win the presidency and Senate in 2020. 110% effort, starting now!