but still the best online narrative to push

The main thing isn't that he's an ex-Democrat, so much as the fact there's reason to doubt he's honest about being a Republican.

@Nuke I can see that being an issue to boomers, but not anyone else. It's helpful he's an outsider too, because the WI GOP is dirty. I expect there's plenty of shifty shit to pin on Vulkmir from her time in state senate.

alright

I don't like infighting over this sort of thing

I'll support Nicholson if he wins the nomination; you'll support Vukmir if she wins.

Tammy Baldwin has to go.

agreed.

@zakattack04 yikes

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 yeah I know, We won Wisconsin by luck

Was pure luck because the democrats stayed home

And Trump turned out basically all their republicans left in the state lol

But he did get less votes than Romney :/

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 Wow I've finally learned about the Democrats' stupid "drumpf is a vote suppressor who won through low turnout less votes than Romney" bullshit

thanks

it's not necessarily pure luck because part of the Trump campaign's message helped drive down turnout for Hillary @zakattack04

how

pushing the fact that she's an establishment shill who screwed Bernie over, for one

yeah but they won't make the same mistake again.

it's still luck

it's not a mistake though 😃

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/10/tammy-baldwin-wisconsin-senate-midterms-november-707778

that's a jewish face if i've ever seen one

She’s gay as well I think

Indeed. She is a lesbian atheist.

"The nervousness stems from flashbacks to that 2016 loss and to the belief that Baldwin will again emerge as a top target for late outside spending. Russ Feingold, the former Democratic senator who ran for his old seat in 2016, led Johnson by nearly double digits before a spectacular collapse in the final weeks of the race, triggered in part by a massive influx of conservative dollars. Democrats responded much too late."

I don't think it was "conservative dollars" as much as it was Trump's coattails

100% agree.

Feingold's opponent (Ron Johnson) getting a lot of money in the last few weeks doesn't mean much, especially in a Presidential year. What would he have done with it? Spend more money on ads when most of the attention was on Hillary vs Trump?

I've noticed that a lot of online discussions about the midterms involve this one argument "(red state democrat) can easily beat (Republican opponent) because (red state democrat) has amassed so much more money"

Yeah that's stupid.

Like they think the reason that Obama won his Senate seat was money to some extent but in reality the reason he defeated Alan Keyes was that they were running in fucking Illinois

Though Obama's funding advantage was probably insurmountable for most swing states

Another example is that other black guy in Florida, Alan West I think

Funny they're both named Alan actually