Fran Hong is still leading in the Wisconsin governor primary (thelemmy.club)

submitted 2 hours ago by SerLava@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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You should do some phone banking so I don't have to have a completely fuckass governor

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[-] free_casc@hexbear.net 18 points 2 hours ago

Also Fox news has a fucking meltdown every time DSA wins. Even of you don't agree with the political positions or tactics, we need to sow now so we can reap a healthy crop of slop from the chuds next year.

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 12 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Yes, and the Wis Dems and their consultants are also fucking shook right now. They've been absolutely fumbling everything in this race.

More people should follow it, it's fucking funny:

Socialists started organizing for Hong very early, so she has been in the lead since the beginning of polling
Democrats fielded the Lt. Governor Sara Rodriguez, who is a white woman with a Spanish last name from marriage
They also fielded Mandela Barnes, the guy who miraculously lost control of the Senate in 2022
The County Executive of Milwaukee County David Crowley was polling at less than 1% and dropped out to endorse Sara Rodriguez
Dems started consolidating around Rodriguez
Rodriguez campaign finance manager was just embezzling the whole time? Turns out the campaign did not have half a million dollars, it had maybe 30k? or maybe negative 100k? We still don't know.
Rodriguez dropped out
Crowley re-entered the race. He then hired a campaign manager for the first time. This was like a week and a half ago.
Mandela Barnes was polling not too far behind Hong, so naturally he started doing epic Twitter clapback maldposting at Crowley just for saying basically "hey guys we're back in the race! 🙂"
Governor Tony "Shitlib" Evers endorsed Crowley
Crowley jumped up in polling all the way to 9%. Hong is at like 38%
Crowley and the Dem establishment started begging the election board to allow people to spoil and recast their ballots because a lot of people literally early voted right after Crowley dropped out
they said "no lol"
Dems are suing the election board
Hong is just moving on to attacking the Republican
Mandela Barnes is slowly bleeding vote share and freaking out between putting out ads of himself in a bar talking to shitty tv commercial actors. But don't worry he's gonna Get Stuff Done and Fight Hard

[-] Bloobish@hexbear.net 2 points 54 minutes ago

My one hope for the DSA is that the DNC and dem establishment are so old and dogshit they just don't even know how to campaign anymore and make people enjoy voting

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 4 points 1 hour ago

They also fielded Mandela Barnes, the guy who miraculously lost control of the Senate in 2022

i asked my uncle and he said something about Barnes not campaigning at all outside of madison and milwaukee which seems like a bad move even though the rest of wisconsin barely has anybody in it.