Or we’ll never win another election.
Who knew! The entire Democrat(ic) electoral tsunami — from Maine to Mississippi — was stolen! Yeah, Trump and MAGA are back at it; conjuring even more stolen election conspiracies. Quick, invoke Article XXV! Lobbed in over the Stately Manor’s transom are these conspiracy theories, each more absurd than the last.
The morally challenged Matt Gaetz — Trump’s first choice for attorney general (remember?) — contends that “Somehow, 7 million voted in Wisconsin’s election 11-03-26 “with fewer than 5 million eligible to cast them. The gap … has not been explained.”
Maybe because there was no gap, we explained. Wisconsin cast 2.67 million votes out of 3.63 million registered voters.
• “Republican voters are lazy.” More “Blame the Voter.” Maybe they’re just discouraged. Here’s another whopper (without cheese):
• “The odds of 3,300 Red counties turning Blue is 1 in ONE TRILLION!!” — Given that there are only 3,144 counties in the U.S., that’s quite the scam!!!!
• Blaming Sen. John Thune and Senate Republicans for not passing the SAVE Act, which would have required voter photo I.D. nationwide. Bill Sann at Wisconsin Conservatives puts it this way:
“Until we secure fair elections without Democrat cheating, software manipulation, illegal immigrant voting, identity theft, fraudulent voters, non-existent, made-up registrations, and keeping the dead on the voter rolls indefinitely, Wisconsin will never have a fair election again.”
Makes one wonder how Trump won our state just two years ago but never mind. Someone tell Bill that Wisconsin already has voter I.D. and paper ballots. Republicans still got smoked. (Retaining records of inactive voters helps prevent fraud: If somebody tries to register using the identity of a dead voter, for example, clerks can flag that application.)
→ A story that should be getting more attention: A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter had sex with Democrat(ic) candidate for governor Mandela Barnes then wrote about his supposed philandering (Barnes is unmarried) to drive him out of the race. — Wisconsin Right Now has it.
So much for term limits
No need for this anti-democratic legislation. Voters proved they can limit terms when they’re good and ready. Texas governor Greg Abbott was thwarted in his bid for a fourth four-year term. Maine voters denied Senator Susan Collins a sixth six-year term. Texas prevented John Cornyn from a fifth term. And Bryan Steil from a fifth two-year term here in Wisconsin. Or did you mean just Democrats?
Gerrymandering. Congressional redistricting in North Carolina was supposed to give Republicans a 11 to 3 advantage. Voters reversed that ratio completely.
The theory goes that a legislative district favors your party with a 60 to 40-point advantage can afford to bleed off, say, 6 percentage points to a district where you’re under water by 46 to 54, thereby producing a 52 to 48 reversal of fortunes — and a riskier margin in both districts.
Even without redistricting, Republican Bryan Steil in Wisconsin’s First District won with 54% of the vote two years ago but lost with 48% this time. November 3 proved once again that partisanship is ephemeral. So did Texas.
Money. Elon Musk spent $225 million in that state alone. You tell us what he got for it except ill will. For all their whining, the court’s Citizens United decision didn’t hurt Democrats one bit, did it?
Madison Ald. Sabrina Madison, bullied, won’t run again
“Every year, while I’ve experienced plenty of successes, I’ve also been the target of coordinated harassment, attempts to bully me, and outright false narratives. And some of that has come from other black women who are current and former members of the Common Council.” (Ald. Madison voted to fire the city’s police monitor.)
Blaska’s Bottom Line: If we ever want to win again, we need to move past the conspiracy kookery of Matt Gaetz, the Pillow Man, Sydney Powell, Peter Bernegger, Mike Gableman, Timothy Ramthun, Janel Brandtjen, Robert Dohnal, and Ken Sikora in exchange for just half the 30 percentage point differential among WI independents who said they favored Crowley over Tiffany, according to the Marquette Law School Poll.
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