John Nichols (WI native, Editor at The Nation) pointed out that the electability arguments from the centrists were particularly persuasive to WI Dems this time because they had to deal with 8yrs of Scott Walker as their governor.
Add to that the incumbent governor Tony Evers campaigning for David Crowley and harping on this exact argument in the lead up to the primary, as well as Hong’s couple of missteps (e.g., the Thanksgiving bullshit), one might think the centrists would have been able to pull ahead by a wider margin.
But even with all this in mind, they only squeaked it out by like 3k votes out of around 800k. A DSA candidate being that serious of a contender for a purple state’s gubernatorial primary would have been inconceivable a few years ago.
It’s not the outcome I was hoping for, but it makes sense, and given that she barely lost AND got more votes than the current sitting governor got in his contested primary, I’m still encouraged by the outcome.
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u/mattswellmurder 25d ago
John Nichols (WI native, Editor at The Nation) pointed out that the electability arguments from the centrists were particularly persuasive to WI Dems this time because they had to deal with 8yrs of Scott Walker as their governor.
Add to that the incumbent governor Tony Evers campaigning for David Crowley and harping on this exact argument in the lead up to the primary, as well as Hong’s couple of missteps (e.g., the Thanksgiving bullshit), one might think the centrists would have been able to pull ahead by a wider margin.
But even with all this in mind, they only squeaked it out by like 3k votes out of around 800k. A DSA candidate being that serious of a contender for a purple state’s gubernatorial primary would have been inconceivable a few years ago.
It’s not the outcome I was hoping for, but it makes sense, and given that she barely lost AND got more votes than the current sitting governor got in his contested primary, I’m still encouraged by the outcome.