Not surprisingly, Tom Barrett easily beat Kathleen Falk in the Democratic gubernatorial recall primary on Tuesday in South Milwaukee. The margin among local voters, however, is noteworthy.
Barrett more than doubled up Falk, 67.4% to 28%, or 1,660 to 689 votes, in South Milwaukee. Kathleen Vinehout got 47 votes, and Douglas La Follette got 46. That margin is well ahead of the statewide spread.
Other results and observations:
- Gov. Scott Walker beat “fake” Republican candidate Arthur Kohl-Riggs, 97.8% to 2%, in South Milwaukee.
- Mahlon Mitchell easily won the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor with 43.7% of the local vote to 27.7% for Isaac Weix and 26% for Ira Robbins. The fact that a “fake” Democrat (Weix) got such a high percentage of the vote locally is concerning to me — probably as concerning as the fact that these “fake” candidates were allowed to run, on both sides, in the first place.
- Turnout was a surprisingly high 41.4%, as 4,849 of the city’s 11,699 registered voters cast a ballot on Tuesday.
One other observation, for what it’s worth — and reading tea leaves in elections like this can be tricky business: More Democratic votes (2,461) were cast for governor locally than Republican votes (2,364). How that translates (if it translates at all) to the June 5 general election remains to be seen.
Check out the complete results on the city’s website. What are your observations? Post them below!
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