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Deliberately provocative title here, and I'm not going to go on record making a prediction, but I just have a bad feeling about it. The persistent bugbear on the Democratic side is voter turnout. Hong had momentum and energy, with the potential to drive strong turnout of the progressive and Democratic base. By the AP numbers I saw, she had majority support through much of the state, while Crowley won with a majority of Milwaukee voters. Which is to be expected, as that's where the biggest chunk of our population lives. But also, Milwaukee has historically had soft Democratic voter turnout.

Voters there chose him in the primary; will they show up for the general election?

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[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just had to follow up: You were right. Thank god! (Milwaukee County showed up.)

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We're legitimately on the way to some FDR shit...

The next battle tho is going to be House/Senate leadership.

Without a corrupt DNC, there's no reason to settle for Jefferies/Schumer. We need progressive leadership, because that's what Dem voters want.

The problem with a non-biased DNC tho, is they won't put their finger on the scale at all. People need to mobilize and call their Dem representatives/senators and telling them we need effective leadership, and the guys who had it the last two years weren't effective.

It shouldn't take much of a fight, but we can't half ass it. We can't half ass anything

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I'm writing my representatives this morning.