The Problem Saying That Wisconsin Voted Against Musk

[gab13by13]

Was just watching freespeechtv.org and Thom Hartmann said if that's the case then Magats have an easy fix to remedy that problem, replace Musk with someone else who will continue Musk's work.

Thom said that the results from exit polling should be out soon. I believe the reasons were that voters are opposed to everything about Project 2025 and that Musk's unpopularity only played a secondary role.

[GoreWon2000]

1. It's an all of the above

Musk became the "face" of Project 2025 which made him a target but voters very much did not like the draconian damage that Project 2025 is doing to our government and our fundamental rights.

[TheFarseer]

2. Right

Saying the problem is Musk or even Trump is short sighted because once they are gone, it’s safe to vote for Republicans that still back cutting vital programs and turbo charging wealth inequality? That ideology and anyone who follows it is the problem, not just Elon Musk.

[gab13by13]

3. Thank you,

You said what I was trying to say.

[Bettie]

4. The people I know in Wisconsin

and there are a lot because we were both born and raised there, voted for Crawford because they don't want to go back to the gerrymandering they had before and they want to keep moving the state forward.

They also dislike Muskrat, but that's really a separate point.

[StevieM]

5. Excellent post. We won this election by a 10 point margin.

Two years ago, we won the Wisconsin Supreme Court election by 11 points. Three years earlier, we won by 10.5 points. Yesterday's victory was perfectly in line with what we have seen over the past five years when Wisconsin chooses who to place on its high court.

This began in 2020 when the partisans who run the court were so determined to keep their majority that they ordered people to go to the polls and vote at the height of COVID, when the whole country was locked down. They believed that Democrats were less likely to turn out. In the end, the election was seen by many as a fight against the attack on democracy by the court. The liberal candidate won by a wide margin.

In 2023 the Republicans on the court had issued a gerrymandering of legislative districts--they didn't just accept one from the legislature and governor, they actually did it themselves. They also issued a number of other ultra partisan rulings, designed to maintain GOP control of the Wisconsin government, even after they lost the election. Some of these rulings were transparently ridiculous. This led to Democratic landslide. The conservative candidate, the same one who had lost in 2020, was anything but gracious in defeat, saying that he would not make a concession call because he did not have an honorable opponent to concede to.

[keep_left]

6. The Eloon-funded ads were terrible, they were incessant...

...and they even spilled into adjacent states (like MN). They also reminded people in the Rust Belt (significant parts of WI) of the failures of Reaganite supply-side economic policies.

The ads ended on a really weak note--something about the "trickle down" policies of the Trump regime...It's really dumb to bring back Reagan-style "voodoo economics" (aka the "trickle-down" theory) after 40 years of historical experience showing that it doesn't work!

https://democraticunderground.com/100220198682#post9

Then there was the whole carpetbagger aspect to the charade, including the infamous scene where Eloon wore a "cheesehead" hat and danced around like a moron. He foolishly spent more than $20 million of his own money on an obscure state judicial election, making it the most expensive in US history.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/01/wisconsin-supreme-court-race/

[JI7]

7. Then we go after whoever replaces him

People don't think in complicated ways. We may have am easier target with Musk so we should take advantage of it.

Because it's near impossible to get others to learn more .

Also the reason they got support from fools in the first place is because it was Musk and their simple minds think he is the wealthiest guy in the world and he will do the same for us.

With people who aren't famous it might be easier to go after them .