Good morning.
Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 87. Sunrise is 5:32 and sunset is 8:29 for 14 hours 57 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waxing crescent with 22.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1968, Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
There are several candidates for Wisconsin governor (mostly among Democrats, but even the Republicans nominally have more than one, although Tiffany is the only one who matters). For the WisDems, this is nothing new:
If the 2026 Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor seems large, 2018 certainly had it beat.
That year, 10 names were on the Democratic primary ballot, plus an 11th write-in candidate, according to results of the 2018 partisan primary kept by the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
Two Republican candidates and two additional write-ins appeared on the 2018 GOP primary ballot.
The Aug. 11, 2026, primary ballot includes seven Democrats and two Republicans.
In both years, a few candidates dropped out of the race, but their names remained on the ballot due to approval deadlines.
As of July 14, that includes Democrats Missy Hughes and David Crowley. So, only five of the Democrats on the Aug. 11 ballot are still campaigning.
In 2018, two higher-profile candidates had also dropped out by late June: Andy Gronik and Dana Wachs, though both appeared on the ballot.
Hope Karnopp, Did more Democrats run for Wisconsin governor in 2018 than in 2026?, Wisconsin Watch, July 16, 2026.
Even now, the field is flux: Crowley, it turns out, may return to campaigning.
Perhaps, for partisans, all this is stressful — which person will their party nominate?
If, by contrast, you are part of a larger, supportive coalition yet not a Democrat (as I am not), then your outlook may be different. (At least, this libertarian blogger’s outlook is different.) One fights with the candidate that one has, and although I will vote in the partisan primary, it’s mostly Democrats who will decide their nominee. One hopes they’ll pick their strongest remaining candidate for the fall, although that’s not certain. It’s not even probable, candidly.
One carries on, regardless, as part of a broader coalition. Any Democrat remaining in the race, even the least favorable choice for the fall, would be better than Trump’s man for Wisconsin.
Never means never.
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Upcoming posts (in no decided order): A Whitewater Comparative Analysis and a New Ethics Ordinance.
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