(H/T – Charlie Sykes)
Damn if I didn’t call this one back in April when Kevin Binversie noticed the Democrats were busy trying to “deconflict” the one “major” primary they had going, their lieutenant governor race. Uppity Wisconsin made the effort to get Mark Neumann selected as the Republican nominee for governor official, noting he would be “a weak general election gubernatorial candidate.”
To set up for this, they even managed to quash any serious competition in the suddenly-opened 7th Congressional race out despite Senate Democrat leader Russ Decker’s decades-long lusting after the seat. The bad news, at least for them, is they didn’t quite finish “deconflicting” their lieutenant governor race by “encouraging” State Senator Spencer Coggs (D-Milwaukee) to drop out the way they did Milwaukee Alderman Tony Zielinski, which would have cleared the field for outstate Assemblyman Tom Nelson. Worse, for everybody involved, the Milwaukee Democrats are insisting on party purity in both the Sheriff’s office and the 7th Senate District, so the biggest potential “Astro-swell” for Neumann is effectively out of play.
Well, that settled it for me