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Category: Governor’s race

  • Democrats should blame Mark Pocan, not the Koch Brothers

    In Wisconsin’s fall they’ve sinned all. If our liberal-progressive-socialist acquaintances ever overcome their obsession with convuluted conspiracy theories they might actually get somewhere at the ballot box. Which is unlikely, now that the Madison Common Council has banned conversion therapy. Our acquaintances are all a-twitter over a new book titled “The Fall of Wisconsin: “The…

  • Moderates won Tuesday’s special WI elections

    It’s always Act 10 in Wisconsin If Republicans should be fingering worry beads about Tuesday’s (06-12-18) two special legislative elections — and they should be — our progressive and socialist acquaintances will need professional grief counseling. Republicans retained the Assembly seat just north of Madison covering most of Columbia County while Democrats flipped the state…

  • About that Blue Wave: Not so fast!

    Do Wisconsin Democrats want to remind voters of the 2011 Capitol takeover? All we know here at the Stately Manor is what we read in the Boys Weekly Reader, delivered to our marbled doorstep in a plain brown wrapper. But results from Tuesday’s primary elections across the country (but not here in Wisconsin) would seem…

  • Help, Wisconsin has fallen and Democrats are desperate

    More ‘sky is falling’ hyperbole from inside the Madison bubble One of these days, Paul Fanlund will encounter a real live conservative instead of getting his morning cup of joe filtered through some sociology panel at RadFest.  Perhaps the Capital Times editor, hopelessly lost somewhere outside Dane County, will take a stool next to that over-the-road…

  • ‘Obama was just too good for us’

    We were not worthy; so we replaced him with a rascal Is the worm turning?  • Talks with North Korea are back on. • The job market is the best in 18 years. Wages are up. • Even some Democratic strategists think Republicans could actually pick up seats in the U.S. Senate. • Trump’s approval…

  • When political hate substitutes for principled reason

    The Capital Times advises: Take the money and run Any day now, the nicest guy in the world, Capital Times emeritus editor Dave Zweifel, will write a paean to a kinder and gentler politics, civil discourse, and the Chicago Cubs. Until then, his newspaper is talking more trash than Donald Trump on a tweet storm.…