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> “What Democrats are doing in Dane County is truly making it impossible for Republicans to win a statewide race.”

Although Republican Senator Ron Johnson somehow won reelection in 2022, albeit by fewer than 27,000 votes.

Yeah while the recent Dane County turnout was impressive I am similarly not convicted that it can be extrapolated to WI statewide elections generally. The Supreme Court race had huge spending and happened as the Dobbs decision was very fresh - it remains to be seen if that's an anomaly or maintainable.

The outside spending against Mandela Barnes was massive: https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S2WI00441/?cycle=2022&ele...

Compare with Johnson: https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S0WI00197/?cycle=2022&ele...

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