According to Wisconsin Public Radio, “The prize attracting so much attention is a ten-year term on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, where the winner will decide the high court’s ideological balance. A Kelly victory would preserve the court’s 4-3 conservative edge, while a Protasiewicz win would give liberals a majority for the first time since 2008.” This is some good news for Democrats. I mean, voters could have put this election away in last night’s primary by nominating Protasiewicz and Mitchell (the other “Democrat”) as the top two to face off in the general election, but no.
So, now it’s Protasiewicz and RepubliKKKlan Kelly. The promising news from these results is that the two Democratic-backed candidates garnered 53.9 percent of the votes, while the RepubliKKKlan-backed candidates captured 46.1 percent of the vote. Thus, if everyone who voted for the Democratic candidates votes for Protasiewicz, then Democrats will flip the majority of the Wisconsin supreme court in their favor, which would be monumental. Naturally, the skeptical part of me automatically asks how will dumbass Democrats f*** this up, but this may not actually ensue considering the last justice elected to the court, Jill Karofsky, in 2020 was backed by Democrats. It just may happen! The High Court in Wisconsin may turn progressive just in time to rule on abortion rights! Let’s hope that Democrats don’t pull defeat from the jaws of victory. That could still occur, and I would not be surprised. Welcome to stupid America!