The Nightmare That Keeps Wisconsin Democrats Up at Night

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-04 01:31:09 | Updated at 2024-10-04 03:29:43 2 hours ago

The Nightmare That Keeps Wisconsin Democrats Up at Night
Politico ^ | 10/03/2024 10:00 AM EDT | Calder McHugh

Posted on 10/03/2024 6:15:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

MADISON, Wisconsin — On an oppressively hot August day in downtown Madison, the signs of this famously liberal city’s progressive activism are everywhere. Buildings are draped in pride flags and Black Lives Matter signs are prominently displayed on storefronts. A musty bookstore advertises revolutionary titles and newspaper clippings of rallies against Donald Trump. A fancy restaurant features a graphic of a raised Black fist in its window, with chalk outside on the sidewalk reading “solidarity forever.”

Yet the Green Party, which bills itself as an independent political party that has the best interests of self-described leftists at heart, is nowhere to be found. It has no storefronts, no candidates running for local office, no relationship with the politically active UW-Madison campus, which has almost 50,000 students.

Where it does have purchase is in the nightmares of local Democrats, who are deeply afraid of the effect the third party might have here in November. As one of the seven presidential battleground states, Wisconsin is a critical brick in the so-called Blue Wall, the term for the run of Rust Belt states that are essential to Kamala Harris’ chances of winning the presidency. It’s a deeply divided state that’s become notorious for its razor-thin margins of victory — a place where statewide elections are so close that even tenths of a percentage point matter. Against that backdrop, the Green Party looms very large this year.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: caldermchugh; greenparty; thegreenparty; wisconsin

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

the politically active UW-Madison campus

aka "The Berkeley of the Midwest"

2 posted on 10/03/2024 6:19:40 PM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump just needs voters - actual voters - to turn out everywhere, tallying votes beyond the reach of the steal.

Voters voting down ballot, too.

3 posted on 10/03/2024 6:20:24 PM PDT by citizen (Political incrementalism is like compound interest for liberals - every little bit adds up.)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

<< blue pockets like Madison, where voters are more progressive, more anti-war, >>

Progs are only anti-war if Israel or the US is kicking jihadi posterior.

4 posted on 10/03/2024 6:30:59 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo

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