{"id":11011,"date":"2023-06-22T14:12:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T14:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11011"},"modified":"2023-06-22T14:12:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T14:12:37","slug":"numbers-nobody-has-ever-seen-how-the-gop-lost-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11011","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Numbers Nobody Has Ever Seen\u2019: How the GOP Lost Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;in the April election, liberal Milwaukee County judge&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/04\/04\/five-takeaways-from-liberals-big-election-night-win-in-wisconsin-00090519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Janet Protasiewicz beat conservative&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/04\/04\/five-takeaways-from-liberals-big-election-night-win-in-wisconsin-00090519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">former&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/04\/04\/five-takeaways-from-liberals-big-election-night-win-in-wisconsin-00090519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">state Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly<\/a>&nbsp;by a whopping 11 percentage points, flipping the ideological majority of the court.<br>&nbsp;In the aftermath, even Republicans here are acknowledging that the state has now shifted leftward, and abortion has a lot to do with that. The end of&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>&nbsp;last year effectively reinstated Wisconsin\u2019s 19th-century abortion ban, which is already being challenged \u2014 and those challenges will likely be decided by the state Supreme Court. That\u2019s why Protasiewicz campaigned heavily on protecting abortion rights, and the election turned almost entirely on the issue.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/05\/30\/gop-wisconsin-abortion-00099006\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/05\/30\/gop-wisconsin-abortion-00099006<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;in the April election, liberal Milwaukee County judge Janet Protasiewicz beat conservative former state Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly by a whopping 11 percentage points, flipping the ideological majority of the court.<\/p>\n<p> In the aftermath, even Republicans here are acknowledging that the state has now shifted leftward, and abortion has a lot to do with that. The end of Roe v. Wade last year effectively reinstated Wisconsin\u2019s 19th-century abortion ban, which is already being challenged \u2014 and those challenges will likely be decided by the state Supreme Court. That\u2019s why Protasiewicz campaigned heavily on protecting abortion rights, and the election turned almost entirely on the issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[521,372,198,509,291],"class_list":["post-11011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-abortion","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-politics","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11012,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions\/11012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}