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Wisconsin

SmartVoter22

(639 posts)

4. Good Luck with that pipedream...

Reply to usaf-vet (Original post)

Sat Aug 22, 2020, 07:15 PM

Aug 2020

Legal challenges will be expensive and likely a lost cause, as the Supreme Courts ( both the state & US) have written opinions allowing
the gerrymandered districts to stand.

The only way to avoid a concession is to win each district, and the DEMS take back the Senate & Assembly.
It has been calculated to require at least a 70% popular vote total to beat the gerrymandering.
The Wisc Dems did get 54% of the total vote in 2018, yet only gained 3 Assy seats.
The other important point, you are assuming, is who conceeds.
A concession by a party does not influence anything, nor has and legal standing.
It is also the choice of the individual candidates, not the party.

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What I want to hear from the Democrats is there will be NO conceding the election UNTIL [View all] usaf-vet Aug 2020 OP

I'd say RoJo's complicity goes beyond AleksS Aug 2020 #1

Moe-Ron is just following Zee orders, like any good brainless Nazi. CaptYossarian Aug 2020 #2

I have to say I agree with you. An active participant! usaf-vet Aug 2020 #3

Good Luck with that pipedream... SmartVoter22 Aug 2020 #4