Wisconsin

He's also the Milwaukee county executive, so of course they know him. But I hadn't heard of him either, and that's really the issue. I don't care about people claiming that we shouldn't vote D, they're about as relevant as a fart in a hurricane, since they change the minds of exactly nobody. If anything, they might do some good by increasing people's awareness of politics. (It's an empirical fact that repeatedly raising an issue just hardens hardens people's attitudes and entrenches, rather than changing, their opinions.)

A lot more people are disconnected from politics, or marginally aware, at best. The question that I have is whether enough Milwaukeeans will come out for the general election to offset the lack of marginal voters from the rest of the state, whose attention is going to fade due to the lack of energy, enthusiasm, and sheer novelty of a candidate like Hong, combined with unfamiliarity with Crowley. And since Milwaukee has a track record of lower turnout, I worry.