Feingold's Loss Shows They didn't Vote on Trade

[JI7]

Feingold opposed free trade while his opponent was the exact opposite. both candidates have an actual record on the issue also. yet Feingold Lost while the pro free trade republican won.

What is it about Feingold that people could not support while supporting someone like Trump ?

For those of us who recognize the bigotry in this election we can clearly see what they were really voting for/against.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Yes, while the were at it they voted against a guy

With a Jewish name.
It's exactly what they did.

[andym]

2. What did the exit polls say about this race?

Also how was turnout in WI?

[diane in sf]

3. Wisconsin lost a huge number of potential Democratic voters because of voter ID laws targeting them.

You can thank the kochroach brothers, walker, and various republican racketeers for that.

[JI7]

4. good point, i read about this and while these issues seem boring to the reality tv "news media"

they are what often really matter.

[riversedge]

6. The HUGE advertizing increase for Johnson towards the end-the outright LIES-was

a huge factor. These ads were relentless. Lots of money poured in last few weeks.




Jake Tapper Retweeted
Ellen L. Carmichael ‏@ellencarmichael 19h19 hours ago

Final Wisconsin results:

Trump (R): 47.9%
Clinton (D): 46.9%

Johnson (R): 50.2%
Feingold (D): 46.8%
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[a kennedy]

7. there was one advertisement regarding veterans that I thought just

killed Russ......it was so wrong in it's content, but was very effective. Not the only thing....but it was effective. Still just sick about RoJo being re-elected.

[BainsBane]

5. Good point.

[budkin]

8. Johnson was dead in the water

And still won... this whole election was a disaster from top to bottom minus a couple of bright spots.

[dsc]

9. Actually the Portman Strickland race is even more demonstrative of that

Trump won Ohio going away 52-44 while Portman won 58 to 37. Portman was literally the architect of every trade deal during the 2000's, every damn one. While Strickland never, not once, voted for any trade deal ever.

[bettyellen]

10. They hate liberals, women and the professional class - and worship irresponsible heirs.

[Justice]

11. or on "draining the swamp"

[NCTraveler]

12. So many are simply trying to say the loss is because of what they view as paramount.

Liberal isolationists will go with "globalization" as the reason.

[mcar]

13. Exactly