Folks are erroneously saying Wisconsin went blue.....No, we got a DEM Governor..Trifecta broken...

[jodymarie aimee]

Wisconsin had a Republican trifecta

Tuesday we got a Dem Gov, but on the state level....I am talking about who makes the laws.....Assembly is 63/36 Republicans ...Senate is 18/15 Republicans....

[octoberlib]

1. You're in the same place NC was in 2016.

What your R legislature is going to do next is try to pass laws to grab power away from the Governor to limit what he can do. Been through this. In 2020 , WI Dems should leave no race uncontested. Run a challenger in every damn race and you’ll either get control of the legislature or break the supermajority (like we did)so the Governor can have veto power. In states that are so gerrymandered it’s a long process and you have to chip away at their power. Ultimately , you’ll prevail.

[Jersey Devil]

2. Yeah, but lost in the battle they still got their voter ID amendment passed

I am really pissed about that. It appears to me that the only way we can reverse that is another constitutional amendment to repeal it, which we cannot propose until we have a majority in the legislature. I guess, alternately, we should have a drive to make sure everyone has photo ID for the next election.

[octoberlib]

5. At the mid- terms

the R legislature put amendments on the ballot to try to hold onto power, one of them was voter ID, which passed here , too. So we’re gonna have to figure a way out of that mess. The big one they wanted passed was to wrest control of appointing judges away from the Governor and give it to the legislature. Democrats and some R’s blanketed the state with ads telling people to vote no on all amendments, luckily this one failed. It’s an uphill battle against a radical, authoritarian party but you’ll get there. First thing Democrats here are going to do is try to get rid of partisan gerrymandering so we don’t have to go through this again.

[Jersey Devil]

7. gerrymandering

I moved from NJ to NC (Goldsboro) in 2016 and when I moved my House rep was a Dem (Butterfield). Then, in the 2106 election, we were moved into Rouzer's (R) district, so as soon as I moved here we were directly affected by gerrymandering.

I know that just before the midterms NC was ordered to draw new maps and then an appeals court said it was too late for this year. Do you know where we stand on that? Is there any updated deadline for new maps?

[octoberlib]

8. That's right, you live in Goldsboro!

I was posting to you like you lived in Wisconsin . I haven’t heard anything about redistricting lately. I’ll have to ask my rep on Twitter. This states gonna be a mess to clean up.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. At least NC looks to have broken up the super-majorities though

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article221279270.html

Here in Pa, we had a similar issue and were able to claw back enough to do the same. We were able to pick off 5 state Senate seats (going from 34 (R) - 16 (D) to 29 (R) - 21 (D)) and 11 state House seats (going from 121 (R) - 82 (D) to 110 (R) - 93 (D)).

[milestogo]

4. After redistricting it will probably return to 50/50 which is the true makeup of Wisconsin.

It will take a decade to clean up after the corrupt actions of Walker and the crew of nasty republicans.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. I think the bigger point about WI "going blue" was because of the take-down of Walker

someone who was re-elected twice and who, despite the gigantic efforts of so many people, could not even be dislodged by recall. There are many of us who live outside of Wisconsin who saw these images -







People standing out in the bitter cold chanting while waiting for the boxes of recall petitions to arrive. And many of us cried along with those WI folks when the recall effort fell short.

I applaud the voters of WI for FINALLY making the 3rd time "the charm".

I also applaud WI for a governor who had this guy as her running mate -



-a young man who will turn 32 next month.

[dragonlady]

12. Mandela is great and has a bright future

In the August primary he was chosen by Democratic voters by a very large margin and won in every county except the opponent's home county!

[BumRushDaShow]

13. That's good to know!

It's great to see the younger folks making their way into the system!

[EleanorR]

10. Blue AG, Blue Sec of State, Tammy Baldwin back to the US Senate

It's going to take awhile to undue all the damage done to WI by the republican cabal.

[Hortensis]

11. Jodymarie, yesterday some "expert" said GA almost went blue

with a single black woman a razor's edge from the governor's seat. Presumably Georgia almost changed gender also.