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ELECTIONS

Local Elections Take Center Stage Across Country

A slew of high-profile local elections are taking place across the nation on Tuesday, but perhaps none is bigger and being more closely watched than the race for a state Supreme Court justice in Wisconsin.

Heading into Tuesday’s voting, more than $42 million has been spent on the contests pitting Janet Protasiewicz, a liberal Milwaukee County judge, against Daniel Kelly, a conservative former state Supreme Court justice. 

The winner will have the deciding vote on a wide range of major issues, including abortion rights, political district maps, and voting and election cases surrounding the 2024 presidential contest.

From the very beginning of her campaign, Protasiewicz has tried to frame the contest as a referendum on abortion rights in Wisconsin — she supports them; Kelly does not ... read more.

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Report: Failure to Embrace Center Led to Santos Victory

A new analysis of the 2022 electoral race that elevated admitted Republican fabricator George Santos to Congress suggests local Democratic leaders made a series of critical blunders heading into the contest, not the least of which was not running a more centrist candidate against him.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee passed its 78-page opposition research file on Santos to Democrat Robert Zimmerman's campaign, but Zimmerman decided he had neither the time nor the funds to flesh out and verify the bombshell information. 

Now, The Welcome Party, a new nonprofit trying to reassert the primacy of the center in the Democratic Party, has taken another look at the race, one it believes was eminently winnable — had party leaders in the state not had blinders on ... read more.

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