Hovde or Neumann?

[WesSeid]

Check out this post over at RedState: http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/08/07/in-wisconsin-conservatives-should-rally-for-mark-neumann/

Erick Erickson making the case for Neumann over Hovde mostly because he thinks he'll be an insider-y type. He claims Hovde is pro-bailouts.

Erick Erickson bans people who say positive things about Ron Paul. Erick Erickson endorses Neumann. I think those two sentences speak for themselves.

If anyone reading this has an account over at DP, you might want to post something quick since they seem to like "police the world" Neumann over "Leave Afghanistan Now" Hovde.

 

[thehungarian]

Erick Erickson bans people who say positive things about Ron Paul. Erick Erickson endorses Neumann. I think those two sentences speak for themselves.

If anyone reading this has an account over at DP, you might want to post something quick since they seem to like "police the world" Neumann over "Leave Afghanistan Now" Hovde.

Yeah, that seals it. It's gotta be Hovde.

 

[bizz]

Both the wife and I voted Hovde.

 

[rpwi]

Has the election been called yet? 20% in and jsonline.com says Tommy 33%, Hovde 32%. Tommy is such bad news...

Newman is a big time warmonger and very bad on civil liberties. He is pretty much a Paul Ryan clone (talks the tough fiscal talk but doesn't have a voting record to back it up...and is a neanderthal when it comes to the military). His support of Ryan was pretty much why he got Newman's old congressional district.

 

[rpwi]

Here is a result map: http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/164929496.html

Hovde looks to be doing strong in the east half of the state where the bigger urban areas are, while Tommy seems to be doing well in the country bumpkin sections of the state. Hopefully like most elections...the urban vote comes in last and pushes Hovde past Tommy.

 

[thehungarian]

47% reporting

Thompson - 97,468
Hovde - 92,164

Don't think he's going to pull it out, unfortunately.

 

[jkob]

Ouch. Neumann and Hovde split the vote and Thompson won. Thompson is just terrible.

 

[Keith and stuff]

Here is a result map: http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/164929496.html

Hovde looks to be doing strong in the east half of the state where the bigger urban areas are, while Tommy seems to be doing well in the country bumpkin sections of the state. Hopefully like most elections...the urban vote comes in last and pushes Hovde past Tommy.

Thompson also won the 3 big urban/suburban counties (the I-94 area). He won the capital county by a large amount. Hovde did well in the Green Bay area, the surrounding area, and pretty well in most of the major urban areas that Thompson won.

 

[thehungarian]

Ouch. Neumann and Hovde split the vote and Thompson won. Thompson is just terrible.

Of all the four candidates, Thompson was the one that could absolutely not win. And he did. Well done, Wisconsin. The nostalgia is strong here.

These idiots at Club for Growth and RedState endorsed Neumann over Hovde when they have no clue that everyone in Wisconsin hates Neumann's guts. He is a grade 17 asshole and I am glad that his political career may finally be over. Although, his ego is such that I wouldn't be surprised to see him back for another try.

In "talk radio land" in South-eastern Wisconsin, where it is all conservative radio all the time, Thompson won handily. Fuck, I hate conservatives sometimes. They get so hell-bent on ensuring that a certain candidate doesn't win and then while they're squabbling like a child in the grocery store over who they should be electing, the one candidate who they didn't want rises to the top.