This article was originally published as part of The Picayune Sentinel’s June 16 issue. Unless these polls are flukes, this race is over. Darren Bailey is in first place in the six-candidate field with 32% support according to a WBEZ/Sun-Times poll taken last week, nearly lapping the field in the June 28 Republican gubernatorial […]
Elections, including and especially primaries, ought to be about measuring the will of the majority, Eric Zorn argues. So once again, Eric Zorn is making the case for ranked-choice voting in multicandidate races.
Less than three months from the primary, Rebecca Kleefisch is facing tougher challenges and has been unable to consolidate support in the party.
We must learn from the mistakes of past cycles and pour our resources into the most competitive races. This year, that means uniting around Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, the frontrunner in the Democratic primary, to give him the resources he will need to beat Johnson in the general election.
We have earned the right to be optimistic. We are good, decent people doing important things. Let’s leave the finger-pointing, the ranting and the rage to the unhinged folks on the other side.
new gerrymandered maps are the reason why democracy in Wisconsin is broken. Keeping them for potentially another decade is a brutal blow to the state. And yet, this situation could have been avoided entirely had a few thousand votes in the 2019 spring election gone just a bit differently.
