Incumbents have huge advantages in Wisconsin elections
What did we learn from tonight?The spring election results demonstrate a simple notion, that incumbents do really well in Wisconsin. So well that people are willing to engage in cross-ticket voting just to keep the familiar office holders in power.
Tony Evers and Pat Roggensack were the liberal and conservative candidates for office, respectively. Evers won his race, and Roggensack won hers. Both candidates won by the same percentages, relatively speaking.
Which means that the people who determine the outcomes in Wisconsin elections -- i.e. the moderates -- are content with incumbents keeping the office they hold, so long as they don’t “rock the boat,” so-to-speak.
The Democratic Party of Wisconsin needs to heed the outcomes of tonight with this special warning:
Scott Walker, being the incumbent governor, has a huge advantage already for 2014.
It's going to take one helluva candidate to defeat him next year.