Crowley’s comeback for the ages gives Democrats a real chance.
WOW! Just WOW! No one saw Hong/Crowley turning out this close! Looks like the Democrat(ic) party’s establishment stepped in like adults at the high school kegger to assure that Democrats fielded a candidate capable of beating Tom Tiffany. With David Crowley’s comeback for the ages, they just might. The guy is an inspiration for drop outs everywhere!
Bad news for Tiffany. He wanted Hong; Republicans wanted Hong. Hong was a national punch line. A Halloween haunted house of spooky Tweets.
Blaska predicted Francesca Hong would get 39.5 percent of the primary election vote; the little firebrand took 39.3% — and that’s with an unknown number of Republican crossovers (like Blaska). We thought that would be enough to win. We under-estimated David Crowley, predicting him at 30.5% — not his winning 39.8 percent. A mere 3,760 votes separated them. Recount!
Just two weeks ago, the Marquette Law School poll showed Hong at 38% to 16% for — not Crowley, who limped back into the race with just 7 percent — but for Mandela Barnes! Then Barnes dropped out of the race just two days after the poll. Hmmm, said Blaska, stroking his chinnie chin chin. If Barnes is rewarded with a plum job by Governor Crowley, we’ll know what fix was in.
Got to think Crowley inherited every inch of Barnes’ support — they’re both black men from Milwaukee. Crowley, (paradoxically) may have gotten a boost by dropping out and then, 10 days later, parachuting back into the field with the support of the governor. Made the news.
A party divided cannot win
We cannot see Hong’s supporters making nice with Crowley any more than many of Crowley’s supporters would have broken a sweat for Hong, who is a Democratic Socialist, not a Democrat anyway. Mainstream Democrats like Madison mayor Dave Cieslewicz had already promised to sit out the general election if Hong won.
“I’m now a never-socialist Democrat.” — a former Madison mayor
Hong‘s pro-Hamas Marxists will not compromise their rigid ideological purity to bend a finger for the hated establishment candidate, Crowley. The Democratic party (and Western civ) is their enemy. They will carry the same resentments that Bernie Sanders, John Nichols, and The Nation readers hold for the Chuck Schumer wing. Would Hong have won if Bernie had stumped for her?
Anyone else think Gov. Tony Evers and WI Democratic party chairman Devin Remiker lent their voter I.D. lists and other party apparatus on behalf of Crowley? When will the late campaign money drop — probably seven figures — from the Democratic Governors Assn be reported? Also got to think the liberal news media — especially CNN and the New York Times — ballyhooed every stupid tweet Hong ever wrote (which is pretty much all of them) to clear the field for someone electable in November. Never good to be a national punch line.
“It turns out hot takes about cancelling Thanksgiving does not go over so easily … defund police, abolish U.S. Senate and even saying that Halloween should also be canceled. Voters are talking about them and many don’t like what they heard.” — Jeff Zeleny reporting from Madison on CNN Monday the day before the election 08-10-26
→ Hasan Piker warns “knives will be out.“
Tiffany needed Martin
Not a lot of attention paid to the lieutenant governor’s race on the Republican side. Tom Tiffany, we think, has been hobbled by the defeat of Will Martin at the hands of David Varnum. As a black man from Racine, Martin would have balanced the north woods head of the ticket. Varnum is another self-righteous white Bible thumper from small town Grant County. Oddly, the party convention endorsed Martin and, for secretary of state, Nate Pollnow, who also lost. The GOP nominee, Jay Schroeder, is paranoid MAGA election denier. He wants to run our elections. They’re what’s called “baggage.”
Finally, Hong under-performed in Dane County, which should have been her rocket fuel. She represents downtown Madison in the WI Assembly but took 44.0% compared to Crowley’s 36.7%. As a state senator, Kelda Roys represents three times the number of Madisonians as Hong but got only 10.6% of the county’s Democrat(ic) vote. Pitiful, considering she got the statewide teachers union endorsement.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Ms. Hong’s bullhorn bellowers are just clearing their throats. Progressives will prove to be every bit the election deniers as MAGA. Especially after the post-midnight thumb-drive snafu in Milwaukee. Now the usual MAGA election deniers accuse The Deep State of taking down a sure loser. The truth is that 60.6% of Democrats didn’t want socialism or late-stage Woke. At least, not as in-your-face as Francesca Hong. Her supporters, we believe, will sit this one out.
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