The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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Well she’s stuck at home and pregnant- following GOP plan to a T!

[French Rage]

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Well she’s stuck at home and pregnant- following GOP plan to a T!

Blessed is the fruit.

[Kepler]

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Well she’s stuck at home and pregnant- following GOP plan to a T!

If she's white and uneducated she's their Ultimate Woman.

I'd add Christian but that follows from uneducated.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Well she’s stuck at home and pregnant- following GOP plan to a T!

Unless she's single, then she's just a slutty Welfare Queen.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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how awesome that the deciding Supreme Court vote forcing Wisconsin to go to the polls today was cast by the guy who was so blackout-drunk all the way through prep school and college that he can't remember how many women he assaulted. it really makes one proud to be an American

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) April 7, 2020

[French Rage]

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But mail-in ballots can be compromised! The GOP made sure to illustrate that in NC!

[Rover]

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Come November, Biden might want to find a third state after Michigan and Pennsylvania to flip because even if the virus is mostly gone five polling places for 600,000 people in Milwaukee is probably going to become normalcy.

I agree. Although I don't blame Wisconsin's governor for this, I'm curious if he expected a different outcome. If he was expecting A) the GOP legislature to do the right thing, or B) the GOP courts to do the right thing, and he didn't have a backup plan that's a problem. Calling up the National Guard to man polling places is a good idea but it seems every move he made was kind of last minute and that gives the courts an easy excuse to rule against him. Start planning NOW (absentee ballots mailed out, maximum # of polling places available, etc) for the November election.

[MissThundercat]

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The Onion: Wisconsin voters to receive "I Voted" gravestone

[burd]

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I agree. Although I don't blame Wisconsin's governor for this, I'm curious if he expected a different outcome. If he was expecting A) the GOP legislature to do the right thing, or B) the GOP courts to do the right thing, and he didn't have a backup plan that's a problem. Calling up the National Guard to man polling places is a good idea but it seems every move he made was kind of last minute and that gives the courts an easy excuse to rule against him. Start planning NOW (absentee ballots mailed out, maximum # of polling places available, etc) for the November election.

Evers doesn't deserve blame, but I don't think he was very smart the way he handled it. It's true he doesn't have many cards to play with at present, but he ought to have come out strong weeks earlier stressing the need to move the date in order to save lives. Might not have changed the outcome, but it would have improved the Ds' position politically. As it is, it is very easy for Rs to say his administration and the D party just mismanaged the whole affair. And that has implications for this fall in a state where a feather's weight could be the difference.

It is true, as somebody mentioned, that the awful SCt decisions arising out of this mess could anger and motivate Ds this fall. The margins are likely so thin that it is difficult to know at this point. It is not difficult to tell whether people's voting rights and lives have been put at risk. I'm embarrassed it is happening in my state. It does, however, give me and others I know even more reason to hit the phone banks and knock on doors this fall.

[Jimjamesak]

I just spoke to a healthcare worker from Milwaukee, 34, who is 17 weeks pregnant, and has coronavirus.

She requested an absentee ballot a week ago. It never came.

She can't go out in public without putting others in danger. Now, she can't vote. https://t.co/zMmN2CmbF2

— Nick Corasaniti (@NYTnickc) April 7, 2020

ACLU on Line 1...

[bronconick]

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Wisconsin Primary Voters Receive ‘I Voted’ Gravestones https://t.co/9oy10KTQo1 pic.twitter.com/Ke76tDjlXo

— The Onion (@TheOnion) April 7, 2020

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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Next time I give a talk on White Flight and someone asks me if the “suburban secession” politics are still alive in the state, I’m just going to press play on this utter bat****tery. https://t.co/XtdZ7hK8AQ

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 7, 2020

[Handyman]

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Ooh, I love this. WI's assembly speaker Robin Vos, the man most responsible for forcing voters between their health and their ballots, is the prez of the National Council of State Legislatures. This new site lets you contact YOUR legislator & ask them to call on Vos to resign! https://t.co/DQb9s5aQbl

— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) April 7, 2020

[Handyman]

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WATCH: Wisconsin GOP Speaker defends holding election while covered in protective gear https://t.co/HvP0ub8h9N pic.twitter.com/G46NLApuBi

— The Hill (@thehill) April 7, 2020

[Handyman]

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A pandemic. A rainstorm. And now hail is beating down on Milwaukee voters. This is just before the sky really opened up. pic.twitter.com/Nfjot9BOoH

— Natasha Korecki (@natashakorecki) April 7, 2020