Money is number one - you need lots of it and the DPW recognizes this, which is why they step forward to support candidates as soon as they announce. Could they have handled their early support of Mary Burke better? Of course. Could Mary Burke have handled it better? Sure. I would like to think that if a second candidate stepped forward officially or even a third, that they all would get the same help until Primary Election Day. But I'm the pie-in-the-sky type and since those other candidates never showed, we'll never know.
Running for office has become many times harder under Citizens United where you're not just running against a person/party but dozens of shadow groups.
The family values crowd has no qualms about going after the families of candidates. I've seen it time and again.
Campaigning is a full-time job and few can afford to take that much time off of work or away from their businesses.
It's no longer about who in the room is the smartest person with the best ideas.
The press, like the Urinal Sentinel and all the Gannet rags across the state champion idiots like Walker while ignoring the raging facts that prove he's a high-functioning, megalomaniacal idiot.
There's not enough pay in the world for most people to want to go to Madison and try to work with the fuckwits on the other side of the aisle.
I'm sure there are a few more reasons that my flu-addled brain can't think of at the moment.
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