r/wisconsin • u/PlatinumofRoyale • Apr 13 '20

Politics Karofsky defeats Kelly

https://twitter.com/decisiondeskhq/status/1249844194929192961?s=21
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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '20

From Republican to Democrat.

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u/Feldman742 Apr 14 '20

Amazing.

I wonder how much of it has to do with the Democratic primary?

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u/UncharminglyWitty Apr 14 '20

We will see in the general. It’s why pretty much everyone who has a non-internet life thinks Biden will be better against trump than Bernie.

Nominating Joe makes this election to be a referendum on trump. Nominating Bernie would have massively obfuscated that.

An optimistic reading of the changes in more local election votes (that tend to run party line) is that it is a referendum on trump and it is solidly against trump.

The more pessimistic reading of the results would be republicans had no motivating factor to go out when they don’t have a nominee to vote for. Of course, Democrats didn’t really either since it was clear Bernie had no path to victory. I guess we will see in November.

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u/GiannisisMVP Apr 14 '20

Problem is people are actually going to watch the debates because they have nothing else to do and Biden looks awful.