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| 5 Lessons for Democrats From Victories in Wisconsin and Chicago | 5 Lessons for Democrats From Victories in Wisconsin and Chicago |
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| Victories by a liberal judge and a progressive mayoral candidate in two Midwestern states this week offered a glimpse of the mood of the electorate five months after the midterms, and it is a promising one for Democrats. | Victories by a liberal judge and a progressive mayoral candidate in two Midwestern states this week offered a glimpse of the mood of the electorate five months after the midterms, and it is a promising one for Democrats. |
| Janet Protasiewicz, the judge, won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court by a remarkable margin: 11 percentage points in a state where elections are often decided by one or two. In Chicago, Brandon Johnson, the mayoral candidate, defeated a more conservative Democrat who had run on a crime-focused platform commonly employed by Republicans. | Janet Protasiewicz, the judge, won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court by a remarkable margin: 11 percentage points in a state where elections are often decided by one or two. In Chicago, Brandon Johnson, the mayoral candidate, defeated a more conservative Democrat who had run on a crime-focused platform commonly employed by Republicans. |
| Here are five takeaways from the elections on Tuesday. | Here are five takeaways from the elections on Tuesday. |
| Judge Protasiewicz focused on abortion with laser precision, hammering the message that electing her was the only way to restore access in Wisconsin after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling allowed an 1849 ban to take effect. Democrats cannot overturn that ban in the Wisconsin Legislature, where Republicans hold large majorities thanks to gerrymandering, but the new liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court can. | Judge Protasiewicz focused on abortion with laser precision, hammering the message that electing her was the only way to restore access in Wisconsin after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling allowed an 1849 ban to take effect. Democrats cannot overturn that ban in the Wisconsin Legislature, where Republicans hold large majorities thanks to gerrymandering, but the new liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court can. |
| Three political scientists — Kathleen Dolan of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Barry Burden and Kathy Cramer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison — cited the potency of abortion as the clear takeaway from the race, which brought not only a lopsided liberal victory (the election was nominally nonpartisan) but also unusually high turnout for a spring election in an off year. | Three political scientists — Kathleen Dolan of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Barry Burden and Kathy Cramer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison — cited the potency of abortion as the clear takeaway from the race, which brought not only a lopsided liberal victory (the election was nominally nonpartisan) but also unusually high turnout for a spring election in an off year. |