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"Hours before results in Wisconsin’s controversial primary were expected to be reported, a conservative-leaning group is going up with a six-figure national ad buy..."

"... taking aim at what it describes as 'brazen attempts to manipulate the election system for partisan advantage' by some Democratic politicians and liberal activists who it says are 'exploiting the coronavirus pandemic,'" Fox News reports.

Here's the ad:



MORE TO COME: The results of last week's election are set to come out at 4 p.m. Central Time.

THAT IS: The results are going to begin to appear. It's after 4 now and nothing's up yet. You can look for it here.

UPDATE: The liberal candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court has been declared the winner. This should take the edge off criticism of the way the election was conducted.

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doctrev म्हणाले...

Ooh. A little spice. Wisconsin is obviously important to the president's re-election, and if we've learned one thing about Trump? It's that nothing makes him happier than absolutely beating the shit out of someone else- rhetorically, I mean. Obvious election-fixing, particularly if it takes more than 48 hours to make the count, is something the DOJ can get involved with no matter who's in the government. Evers would be better off conceding that Wisconsin Court election to the Republicans, and then making the push. As it is, a lot of Wisconsinites are going to hate the stupid jackass for his needlessly tyrannic moves, and Trump will exploit that mercilessly.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Democrats are in favor of democrats cheating, so it won't win them over.

Jamie म्हणाले...

This strikes me as "Republicans pounce!" Anybody else?

chickelit म्हणाले...

The game's not over until we win
~Russ Feingold (D)

Todd म्हणाले...

The counting an't done until the Democrat has won...

Democrat candidates preferred by 19 out of 20 deceased voters!

Vote harvesting, the only farming democrats support!

Buckwheathikes म्हणाले...

The game's not over, because Russ Feingold is still unable to get elected.

Rabel म्हणाले...

Kelly 50-37.

robother म्हणाले...

Nothing. Ann's high bar is met.

brylun म्हणाले...

What a mess!

Bobber Fleck म्हणाले...

"Kelly 50-37"

That explains Evers attempt to postpone the election and allow voting by mail.

Rabel म्हणाले...

Either a lot of voters did not vote in the SC election or the numbers I'm seeing at the Wisconsin Election site are wrong, or I'm looking in the wrong place.

Rabel म्हणाले...

My bad. That's from their "Canvass reporting System." Whatever that is.

Rabel म्हणाले...

I'm so confused.

MadisonMan म्हणाले...

4 PM just doesn't mean what it used to I guess.

Wince म्हणाले...

Hours before results in Wisconsin’s controversial primary were expected to be reported, a conservative-leaning group is going up with a six-figure national ad buy...

Would seem late, unless the ad buyer expects a win and wants to explain the outcome to the center.

The ad wasn't inflammatory enough to fan a protest in the event of a loss.

Bobber Fleck म्हणाले...

It appears Wisconsin has enlisted help of the Iowa Democrats to speed up vote counting.

BarrySanders20 म्हणाले...

Looks like we are pretending that the election was today and the tallied results are trickling in.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves म्हणाले...

I know nothing about the supreme court noms.

Francisco D म्हणाले...

Election cheating in Wisconsin?

Nah!

Say it 'aint so.

Original Mike म्हणाले...

I don't understand. It's been a week. Why aren't the totals fully tabulated?

Buckwheathikes म्हणाले...

Calling it for Daniel Kelly, the incumbent Supreme Court Justice appointed by Republican Scott Walker. He's pulling away handily from his liberal challenger.

Democrats can't even steal elections competently any more. And they've had a week to "harvest" votes.

Marsy's Law (conservative crime bill opposed by the ACLU) passed with 75% of the vote.

Total Republican victory.

Hell, even Joe Biden only got 65% in a race where his opponent quit the race.

h म्हणाले...

So far, only Buckwheathikes is explaining this to those of us not steeped in Badger politics. And I'm not entirely sure if he is posting a hope-filled prediction, or an actual fact based result. The big race here was the state of Wisconsin Supreme Court election. And Buckwheat.. says (and I think that is right) that the "Republican" (Kelly) will win. Since I am not an expert in Badger politics, I invite others to correct this. But I note a lot of the earlier comments just assume that we all understand the basic rules of the game, and I just remind you that not all of us know as much as you think we know. This is related to an earlier post which suggested that the last minute attempts to change the date of the election or the rules of absentee voting resulted from the "insider" (governor's office) understanding that pro-Kelly (pro-Republican) absentee ballots were very large compared to history and compared to absentee ballots for the (Dem leaning) opponent.

BUMBLE BEE म्हणाले...

By golly, what's that floating over in that pond? Ballots... in that box???? Hey you guys, hold on there... stop counting. I've found something!
(Enter Soros' Secretary of State Initiative beneficiary)

Known Unknown म्हणाले...

So the state has sat on votes for almost a week? Are you serious? And now the results are just trickling in?

Big Mike म्हणाले...

As of 6:00 CDT the lefty is 1400 votes ahead with 36% of the precincts counted.

PJ57 म्हणाले...

As Door County goes, so go'eth Wisconsin.

Buckwheathikes म्हणाले...

Meh, someone just "found" 60,000 votes for the Democrat in the Supreme Court case.

Guess that week spent "harvesting" ballots was useful after all.

Big Mike म्हणाले...

Strange. Ten minutes later, 46% of the precincts reporting, and the lefty has a 50,000 vote lead. “Strange” does not necessarily mean fraudulent, but then again we’re talking Democrats here.

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

The sudden jump was Milwaukee County reporting the entire vote. According to the graphic, it is 100% counted- as in 477 of 475 precincts.

I am not joking- it says 477 out of 475.

Buckwheathikes म्हणाले...

Yep, Big Mike ... those 50,000-60,000 votes showed up all at once. Democrat has an insurmountable lead now.

lb म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
GBnative म्हणाले...

Hmmm.

Halfway through the tally, and the lefty is up 53-47, by 50,000 votes. The Journal-Sentinel has a nice live-count graphic that shows which precincts are yet to be heard from, and you can argue that the remaining map favors the conservative incumbent... but I'm not sure they're from populous-enough rural counties to make up those 50,000 votes. Especially when very populous, public-employee-dominated and super-liberal Dane County still has votes to report. Keeping them in reserve, it's safe to assume.

I yield to no one in my contempt for commie Dane County judges, but... Not the end of the world if the lefty woman wins. It's still a conservative WSC majority, by a slender majority. And it might (might) defuse all the wailing and gnashing of teeth over the Wisconsin catastrophe, the disenfranchisement, the murderous cruelty and the absolute need to change all the rules and make the November election exclusively mail-in, i.e. a fraudfest. Whaddya complaining about? You won, silly libs.

Gideon7 म्हणाले...

So far Trump has gotten more votes (380K) than Biden (360K).

Mark म्हणाले...

AP called it for Karofsky, Kelly is out.

Too many elderly Republicans stayed home.

narciso म्हणाले...

Margin of fraud.

Inga म्हणाले...

“Too many elderly Republicans stayed home.”

They should’ve gotten absentee ballots.

eric म्हणाले...

Looks like the liberal won.

I think if they cry fraud enough, they can commit enough fraud to push just about anyone over the line.

Although they only have 70% of the votes in so far, but they're calling it for the liberal.

Mark म्हणाले...

Tell that to Ann.

The supposedly easy system is not always such. Esp for people who lack a smartphone to submit an image of their DL.

It's almost like forcing a vote at that moment was a massive strategic own goal by Vos and Fitzgerald.

I am sure they will insist it was not, but if you know WI politics you know they are profoundly full of shit.

Mark म्हणाले...

eric, most of what is out is Milwaukee and Dane County. Kelly ain't winning those.

Amazing how the collar counties fell off this election

roesch/voltaire म्हणाले...

Poor Althouse bloggers got it wrong, wonder why?

GBnative म्हणाले...

It will be interesting to see if day-of voting had anything to do with Karofsky victory.

Maybe the Evers strategy -- evidence of which Prof. Althouse was looking for a couple days ago -- was to engineer a situation in which Milwaukee voters suddenly developed turn-out fever because the GOP (in the immortal words of Joe Biden) was looking to "put y'all in chains," again.

Couldn't have been Biden-Bernie. Or a Supreme Court race that would make the con-lib balance go from 5-2 to 4-3. Or a mayor's race in which Barrett was once again a shoe-in. Maybe, though, Milwaukee voters stood in line for a couple of hours to give the middle figure to the Republicans. As good a theory as I can come up with.

wishfulthinking म्हणाले...

What is the breakdown of the WI supreme court?

rcocean म्हणाले...

"This should take the edge off"

Nope. Of course all the liberal/left groups that were going to sue if Kelly had won, will still sue because of PRINCIPLE!

Yes, of course. Really.

Drago म्हणाले...

r/v: "Poor Althouse bloggers got it wrong, wonder why?"

A week of Al Franken vote counting tactics.

Stay Safe म्हणाले...

The Good people of Wisconsin were not going to let Republicans steal this election.

rcocean म्हणाले...

If look at the results, 700,000 people turned out for the D primary, and 500,000 voted in the R primary. The vote for the liberal justice was 630,000, and the Conservative got 570,0000.

R's were beaten by turn out. Doesn't bode well for the R's in November. Same thing happened in the race to fill Sessions seat in 2017. The D's got almost 90% of their 2016 voters to turn out, and the R's only turned out 50%. Result? Senator Doug Jones.

rcocean म्हणाले...

Are the D's more motivated? Or do they have a well oiled machine to get people to send in ballots. It *is* funny how motivated poor blacks are to vote these days, after years of being indifferent.

DINKY DAU 45 म्हणाले...

yup another kiss of death endorsement by Donny...10 year appointment ,hasn't thappened in 12 years an incumbent beat...signs of the future hits WISCONSIN and the brain dead push to vote live in a Pandemic,,sometimes you do get what you deserve.....

Titus म्हणाले...

That was a wipeout for a state wide election in Wisconsin. Usually much closer.

doctrev म्हणाले...

Yeah, boy! It took them a week to count the votes after early results were intensely for the Republican, but don't worry- no demagogue will possibly exploit this slanted result!

Mu hu ha ha ha ha ha.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves म्हणाले...

why did it take so long to count?

Big Mike म्हणाले...

This should take the edge off criticism of the way the election was conducted.

I guess only criticism from the left counts with you.

Chuck म्हणाले...

Another personal endorsement by Trump turns into a dumpster fire.

A clusterfuck of a dumpster fire, in the middle of a train wreck.

Trump has the shortest electoral coattails in modern presidential history. He is electoral poison, to Republicans up and down ballots all over.

Drago म्हणाले...

LLR-lefty Chuck: ".......(stuff)...."

LOL

Poor Chuck. Looks like his hero Biden wont even make it to the starting gate.

And whats all this about Biden sexually assaulting loyal democrat staffers?

I'lk bet LLR-lefty Chuck will be all over that one! Any minute now in fact!

steve uhr म्हणाले...

Dawning on the republicans that they overplayed their hand. They have blood on their hands and this ad won’t change anyone’s view.

Drago म्हणाले...

steve uhr: "Dawning on the republicans that they overplayed their hand. They have blood on their hands and this ad won’t change anyone’s view."

Ah yes.

The "W"-Katrina/Romney gave a woman cancer/Paul Ryan is killing granny playbook.

I dont think the dems/LLR's understand yet, even after all this time, that Trump punches back.

Yeah, gee, I wonder if an ad showing everything the lefties/LLR-lefties have said will be effective.

Sure was effective today when all of LLR-lefty Chuck's MSM heroes fled the scene of the press conference.

That must have been due to the dems/LLR-lefties thinking Trump wasnt being effective......LOL

Drago म्हणाले...

Next up for Steve Uhr: OMG! They are eating each other in the Superdome! (One of my favorite all time Shep Smith "totally not over-reacting" broadcast moments)

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves म्हणाले...

how are votes counted in WI?
are there safely measures in place to make it transparent?

Nichevo म्हणाले...

UPDATE: The liberal candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court has been declared the winner. This should take the edge off criticism of the way the election was conducted.


Nicely played?

"It's not over until we win!"

Birkel म्हणाले...

Everything is a bellwether except when it's not.
The counties in Pennsylvania were not; they voted against the narrative.

Who the hell knows?

Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...

If there was ever a time for the Rahm Emanuel call to be put into effect... this is it.

"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."

It doesn't get any more serious than a pandemic.

Static Ping म्हणाले...

It is somewhat difficult to make any sort of analysis of an election taken under these circumstances. It's not every day that the election is taking place during a lock down during a pandemic with the governor trying to cancel the election at the last possible minute. You really cannot learn any lessons from that sort of chaos.

Birkel म्हणाले...

A certain banded racist fopdoodle forgets that Obama had shorter coattails.
I feel generous tonight.

Drago म्हणाले...

Birkel: "A certain banded racist fopdoodle forgets that Obama had shorter coattails.
I feel generous tonight."

I suspect the gin and tonics are flowing freely tonight at LLR-lefty Chuck's hosted virtual Support Democrat Gov Whitmer Now! party.

narciso म्हणाले...

So by carvilles own words, the dems courted death to secure an election, see how this works

Darrell म्हणाले...

I bet you can steal any election if nobody watches while you make the sausage.

wendybar म्हणाले...

"UPDATE: The liberal candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court has been declared the winner. This should take the edge off criticism of the way the election was conducted."

Because if they didn't win, they would riot???

Mark म्हणाले...

When did that happen here, Wendybar?

I see that two additional Walker appointed judges lost in Milwaukee County.

Walker judges do not fare well at the ballot box

alanc709 म्हणाले...

The liberal judge winning should take the edge off electoral complaints? Why did they wait a week to start counting ballots? So enough fraudulent ballots could be made showing the liberal winning?

Will Cate म्हणाले...

"fat tire biker" is a pejorative.... means basically someone who buys a mountain-bike for the look, but never actually goes mountain-biking.

Gusty Winds म्हणाले...

"UPDATE: The liberal candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court has been declared the winner. This should take the edge off criticism of the way the election was conducted"

Of course if the liberal wins all is well with the voting system. Madison and Milwaukee are political jokes. Fun towns though.

Gusty Winds म्हणाले...

You knew as soon as the refused to count the votes along with the Supreme Court ruling that the liberal judge would win.

Mark म्हणाले...

Who refused to count what votes, Gusty?

Inga म्हणाले...

Absentee ballots were allowed to be counted up to April 13th due to a court ruling. Republicans thought they could steal a WI Supreme Court election because they thought Democrats in Milwaukee wouldn’t turn out to vote because of the pandemic, boy were they wrong. As I said months ago, suburban voters are rejecting Republicans in ever increasing numbers.

“The victory, by upward of 120,000 votes as of Monday night, came as a shock to Republicans and Democrats alike in Wisconsin, where contests for president, governor and the state’s high court in the last four years have all been decided by about 30,000 votes or less. It followed weeks of Democratic anger over Republicans’ insistence on holding elections amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Wisconsin’s map on Monday night looked like a dream general election result for former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the presumptive Democratic nominee — stronger than typical for Democrats in the suburbs and a respectable showing among the state’s blue-collar white voters in rural counties. But officials from both parties cautioned against overinterpreting the Supreme Court results, given the bizarre circumstances surrounding the high court race.”

NYT

Todd म्हणाले...

Inga said...

Absentee ballots were allowed to be manufactured and counted up to April 13th due to a court ruling.

4/14/20, 8:34 AM


Fixed it for you. Though I am pretty sure you don't believe voter fraud occurs in any significant way despite there having been ample proof that it does. Examples like precincts reporting more votes received than there are voters. Vote harvesting. Multiple absentee ballads going to the same "one bedroom" address. People voting in multiple states. The list goes on. Along with Democrats and their legal friends doing all that they can to further disenfranchise US citizens by trying to remove any and all barriers to non-citizens voting and Democrats voting multiple times. But SURE, this is the will of the PEOPLE! As noted earlier up thread. The counting an't done until the Democrat has won. Funny how boxes of Republic voting ballads never get found "at the last minute" to put the Republican candidate over the top. This "luck" only always seems to break one way. So sure, bask in the great turning of the populous to the liberal side. Think the last 3 or 4 weeks have been fun? All the Democrats want to make this lock-down, control, scarcity "the new normal". Just be sure YOU remember, you went this way with your eye wide open and with full understanding of where this path ends.

Vance म्हणाले...

Inga fully supports vote fraud from Democrats, as does Chuck and Mark.

There is never a problem when you have a precinct with 120% turnout and 99% votes for the Democrats... that's just fine and dandy if you ask our leftists.

Of course, they also argue that they should be allowed to "offset" "extra" votes against Republican votes elsewhere. Since, after all, it only takes 50% plus one vote to win an election, any "extra" Democrat votes should be applied in other races to bring them up to 50%. In this way, you get a friendly precinct, run up tens of thousands of fraudulent votes, destroy the ballots really really quickly so no one can check them, and then viola, you've run the table in a state election.

Seriously, that is an issue Democrats have tried to push, I think it was in fact in Wisconsin, not too long ago.

Republicans do not get to do that, though.In fact, look at Inga upthread: any vote for a Republican is "stealing an election" from, as someone else put it, "the good folk of Wisconsin." Inga and the rest believe that any vote for anyone other than their candidate is wrong and should be punishable by law.