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bibliofile is evil knows me well, she forwarded me DPW's survey about the gubernatorial recall election in Wisconsin.
The top of the survey claims that they will "put Tammy Baldwin in the Senate," which I kind of doubt.
Regardless, here's the answer I gave to their most important question:
What do you think the Democratic Party of Wisconsin could have done differently to change the outcome of the election?
Find and cultivate better candidates; run more effective/put-together campaigns.
Barrett might have been our best option out of what was available in the debates, but he pretty much sucked as hard as he could have, to convince people who hadn't already made up their minds. When asked about his economic plans for WI, he gave some anti-Walker bullshit, and Walker basically cake-walked through to election day. The plan to convince undecideds/conservatives obviously failed abysmally.
Even in a recall election, you can't campaign solely on, "The other guy sucks."
Couldn't he have at least dug up what his economic plan was from 2010? It was cringe-worthy. Walker didn't even have to try.
There was an opportunity here, and people were fired up. It's a shame that the opportunity was wasted.
bibliofile The top of the survey claims that they will "put Tammy Baldwin in the Senate," which I kind of doubt.
Regardless, here's the answer I gave to their most important question:
What do you think the Democratic Party of Wisconsin could have done differently to change the outcome of the election?
Find and cultivate better candidates; run more effective/put-together campaigns.
Barrett might have been our best option out of what was available in the debates, but he pretty much sucked as hard as he could have, to convince people who hadn't already made up their minds. When asked about his economic plans for WI, he gave some anti-Walker bullshit, and Walker basically cake-walked through to election day. The plan to convince undecideds/conservatives obviously failed abysmally.
Even in a recall election, you can't campaign solely on, "The other guy sucks."
Couldn't he have at least dug up what his economic plan was from 2010? It was cringe-worthy. Walker didn't even have to try.
There was an opportunity here, and people were fired up. It's a shame that the opportunity was wasted.
