What a relief!

[chanter1944]

Oh my goodness. Come August, Wisconsin's Supreme Court will have its first liberal majority in fifteen years. This, with challenges to the 1849 abortion ban as well as possible redistricting reform on the line. Oh my goodness.

Here I was, expecting to be up all night waiting on razor thin margins to update, refreshing twitter like a fiend and tying myself in knots, and the AP race call hit at just about exactly 9 our time. On spotting the first news of the liberal win, which was then verified, I said, "Oooooh *already?!*"

:D!

I didn't think this would ever happen. I didn't honestly think we'd ever get here. I know what small towns and suburbs in Wisconsin are like. I well remember 2006's marriage referendum, to say nothing of 2016. And yet... here we are.

Semi-related, but not entirely so, ceitfianna, mind if I DM you about a thing?

Comments

[soc_puppet]

Yaaaaaay! Go, Wisconsin! Hopefully Iowa can take a page or two out of your book in the near future. (I want our governor replaced with someone better, post-haste!)

[chanter1944]

Darn right! :) Iowa deserves better than who you've currently got.

[wyld_dandelyon]

I find it very hopeful that they were able to call the election so early! And (though with only 71% of the vote in) with a wide Democratic margin--at that point, like a 15 point spread. That will doubtless get closer, as the counties that had no reports in were all or mostly in rural Republican areas.

But yes, wow, I'm so very relieved!

[chanter1944]

Looks like, as of this morning, an 11-point difference, which is pretty darn impressive given the red counties you mentioned being slower to report in. I'm still a little amazed.

Have you seen or read any of Kelly's quote unquote concession speech? What was he even doing? I'm not sure if that was just sour grapes, or if he genuinely believes the vitriol he was flinging around.

[wyld_dandelyon]

It's all in accord with the original Big Lie strategy that the GOP has been using (if I am to believe what my very smart mother said in one of our last conversations) longer than I've been alive.

I mean, I know that that phrase has been applied to one Humongous Big Lie lately, but fearmongering, hatred, and lies have been their strategy for a long time, as well as insisting that their opponents are worse than them on all the corrupt hateful crap.

I have no idea if Kelly (or any of them, really) believes any of it, but it has consistently been their standard operating procedure.

It's so ugly. I sure hope that the number of voters willing to buy into it keeps dropping.

[chanter1944]

Oof, yes, the overarching big lie, as opposed to the more recent subheading big lie. It is so extraordinarily ugly, and so infuriating and disgusting besides. It's another reason why the margin by which Kelly was defeated (did you see his speech after he lost? what an overgrown bully) is a resounding relief to me.

[wyld_dandelyon]

I heard a little of it, and had no stomach to pay attention to that crap.

[chanter1944]

I've read a little of it, and heard a single snippet quoted by a WPR newsreader, and that's all I can take.

[cmcmck]

Hope this is a sign of the fight back!

[chanter1944]

So do I. Oh my goodness, so do I.

[jesse_the_k]

Ahhhh, what lovely news!

breathes a little easier for possible genuine redistricting

[chanter1944]

Oh lord yes, the potential for genuinely fair, nonpartisan redistricting! I'm almost eager for that fight, now.