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WHEN IT COMES TO CORONAVIRUS in the state of Wisconsin, we are failing. Hard. We're even doing worse, comparably speaking, to the rest of the nation as a whole when you look at the past 75 days. On August 31, Wisconsin had approximately 75,000 cases of coronavirus , and counted 1,122 deaths at that time from the pandemic. On November 12, those numbers increased to around 293,000 total cases diagnosed, and 2,515 deaths counted. In the U.S. overall, there were around 6.27 million cases of coronavirus on August 31 ; on November 12, the U.S. counted 10.88 million. When it came to deaths, the country saw around 188,000 counted from COVID-19 on August 31. This week, the number is up to 248,000. The U.S. obviously has a higher number of deaths and cases of coronavirus. But if you grew the population of Wisconsin to be proportionally equal to the nation, it would show we're actually doing worse during this time period .  In fact, if you took the change in new diagnoses discovered in W...

REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLYMAN JOE SANFELIPPO made headlines this week after his comments set off concerns that he and other legislative Republicans in the state might try to overturn the will of Wisconsin voters. President Donald Trump lost the state in the 2020 election last week to now-President-elect Joe Biden. Republicans across the country are considerably upset about this — so much so that they appear willing to defy our nation's norms, as Trump has done, and refuse to accept Biden as the next president. Sanfelippo looks to be a lawmaker willing to take this defiance to the extremes. Discussing the matter on Monday, he made the wild suggestion that, if voting irregularities could be found, the state's electors in the Electoral College ought to be allowed to vote against how Wisconsinites voted in the presidential election . "If an investigation shows these actions affected the outcome of the election, we need to either declare this past election null and void and hold a new...

WITH THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION having now been decided , it's time to once again say, with complete conviction and truth, that the Electoral College simply has to come to an end, once and for all. The idea is simple enough: end the Electoral College, and let every vote across the country count equally, no matter what state you live in. There's no reason why we shouldn't do this. The Electoral College has, on many occasions, thwarted the will of the American people to pick their commander-in-chief by allowing votes in some states to "weigh" more than votes in others . It did so in 2000 and in 2016, and in spite of Joe Biden's win this year, it came dangerously close to doing it again in 2020. But some have argued that the Electoral College makes less-populous states more relevant — or that candidates for office won't travel to those areas if they can "camp out" in high-population areas to win an election. There's no evidence to support ...