Editor - Yellow Stripes & Dead Armadillos, Blogger - Citizen Dave at Isthmus, Mayor of Madison, WI from 2003 to 2011.
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Last month when I announced that I'd be taking the summer off to develop a new book project, YSDA readers — and the YSDA adjacent — rejoiced.
When I shut down my blog for the summer I noted that I would occasionally comment on the Wisconsin governor's race.
It looks like we have the most convincing evidence to date that Sara Rodriguez is the front runner for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
Since I last wrote about the Wisconsin governor's race a whole lot of water has rushed under the bridge. Let's review.
Being a socialist could well bury a candidate in the general election. The trouble for Democrats is that it could win a candidate their nomination in August.
At this point, based on the latest Marquette poll results , it looks like a certainty that Francesca Hong will be the Democratic nominee for governor. Tony Evers' Hail Mary in the form of David Crowley looks to be either falling to the end zone turf or being intercepted and run back the other way by Hong.
An article in yesterday's State Journal gave me some hope that the fall campaign between presumptive gubernatorial nominees Tom Tiffany and Francesca Hong might be more enlightened than I have thought. Okay, so probably not, but you never know.
Moderates might take some solace in Abdul El-Sayed's much narrower than expected victory in this week's Michigan Senate primary. But I don't think it provides much hope in heading off Francesca Hong.
It's likely to be too little too late. My very limited sample size along the Maple Mile (the mile-long walk I take each day through my Madison West Side neighborhood with my dog, Maple) shows that David Crowley lawn signs have popped up in the last few days. They now outnumber the Francesca Hong signs by about three-to-one. Maybe the recent revelations of Hong's comments about how she hates Thanksgiving have liberals freaking out about her electability come November.
Back in May I decided to once again take the summer off to focus on book writing projects. But I added one fateful caveat: I would occasionally write about the Wisconsin governor's race. How was I to know that the Democrats would turn their primary into a demolition derby? I couldn't look away.
