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Yes. Ryan met expectations & was relatively magnanimous in victory. Said it was because voters knew him, not issues. twitter.com/stephenrodrick…
Mickey Kaus
Kausfiles
Yes. Ryan met expectations & was relatively magnanimous in victory. Said it was because voters knew him, not issues. twitter.com/stephenrodrick…
@kausmickey It looks like the national populism tide is ebbing. This & Trump falling so far behind, no?
@kausmickey Why’d yall waste your time with Nehlen?
@kausmickey Well, if he won with 85%, obviously its not definitive, but not a good Trump sign. Although I’m against the Death Tax myself.
@kausmickey @stephenrodrick “Said it was because voters knew him, not issues.”
Got that right. He’d lose on issues.
@kausmickey hmm? Two weeks ago he was at 43 % and walker was sounding the alarm. Open primary didn’t benefit
@kausmickey @stephenrodrick https://t.co/1udHXQ4O0v
25,722 votes were cast for the Dem ballot in the WI-01 primary. On the Rep ballot it was 10,852 for Nehlen and 57,391 for Ryan. So even if all the WI-01 Dems had crossed over Ryan would still have been ahead by more than 20,000 votes. Factor in that Ryan has held his seat since 1999 and it becomes clear that, yes, Ryan met expectations; but also, that Ryan was unfortunately right: it was because the voters knew him, not because of issues. And so much the worse. Either those 57,391 are too stupid to realize how cheap and evasive Ryan is or they do realize it and vote for him anyway, which is seriously creepy. Either way, if Nehlen decides to run again in two years the only way he’ll win is if 60,000+ patriotic Americans move to WI-01 to swing the vote. That’s the simple math of it.
Bottom line: this has nothing to do with Nehlen or Trump. I lived in Janesville for a spell several years ago. It’s a nice enough area but it’s also out in the middle of nowhere. Even so, the area I lived in probably wasn’t half so nice as where Ryan lives; but even then I got a self-conscious vibe from these fairly well-off mid-westerners: a desire to be “respectable,” which is so obvious in a small-town boy like Ryan that it’s a shame that only someone like Ann Coulter has the courage to point out what grasping mediocrities these “movement conservatives” are.