Heavy turnout seen across state, some long lines at polls

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinal

At the state level, voter turnout is also looking strong so far, said Michael Haas, elections administrator of the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board.

Last week, GAB officials predicted that nearly 1.8 million Wisconsinites — or 40% of eligible voters — would cast a ballot, which would amount to the largest turnout since 1980 for a spring election.

Early voting, which wrapped up for in-person absentee ballots last week, has also been running well ahead of the 2012 presidential primary.
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UW-Green Bay spokeswoman Janet Bonkowski said throughout most of the day about 100 students were waiting to vote on campus, with the line surging to as many as 250 students around 4 p.m., once most classes had wrapped up. .... Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders visited the campus in recent days, helping boost turnout, she said.


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"The biggest mistake Clinton has made during this election season is attacking Sanders."

link to Taylor Gipple's excellent analysis on Huffington Post; excerpt:

The mainstream media almost convinced me Bernie Sanders had lost the Democratic nomination after his disappointing Super Tuesday. ... I wasn’t going to vote, politics was finally at its peak of corruption and the American public just didn’t care enough about its future. ... But a month later, after many blowout wins by Sanders, and multiple self-inflicting wounds by Clinton, Bernie Sanders proved me wrong. Now more than ever, the light at the end of the tunnel is finally shining through. I thought his momentum was at a halt, but Sanders out-raised Clinton in both February and March (and that’s without Super Pacs).

After Sanders wins both Wisconsin and Wyoming later this week, his train is going full steam ahead into New York.... A win in Clinton’s adopted back yard would push the Sanders campaign over the edge in momentum and cripple any inevitable belief that assumes Clinton will be the nominee.

The biggest mistake Clinton has made during this election season is attacking Sanders. Attacking the most moral candidate we’ve seen in quite some time is just an awful, embarrassing blundering misstep. It’s as if the Clinton camp assumes people don’t have access to the internet, won’t fact check her, and will believe whatever she says. That’s why she losing the under 40-age vote by a massive margin.... Look at Twitter, Facebook or Reddit, and Clinton overwhelmingly comes off like leprosy among people online. I’ll say it again, I just don’t see the same enthusiasm coming out of the Clinton camp.

And don’t forget Clinton is under federal investigation. No one knows what’s going to come of the current investigation, but the fact is she is under federal investigation! If any other candidate was placed under federal investigation, that’s an automatic disqualification of being able to run for president of the United States.... Don’t think for a second that there isn’t still a warm, glowing light at the end of a dark tunnel that is the election process. And that light is shining brighter than ever for Bernie Sanders.

"Only Hillary can stop Bernie Sanders from being US President, says Michael Moore"

"If everybody shows up to vote, Bernie Sanders will be the next President of the United States," predicts Michael Moore, the provocative filmmaker whose Fahrenheit 9/11 remains the highest-grossing documentary of all time.

"But first," he adds, "he has to get through the hurdles of the Democratic Party, which does not want him as their nominee."

Moore ... pays far more attention to the politics of the US than most, and is convinced the only way Donald Trump could become the next president – assuming the Republican establishment doesn't find some way to block his seemingly inevitable nomination – is if he squares off against Hillary Clinton rather than Sanders....

"Keep this statistic in mind: 81 per cent of this country is either women, people of colour or young adults under the age of 35. That's who's voting this year, and Mr Trump has done marvellously offending all three of those groups of people. The chance of him winning is only possible if people stay home on election day."

Sanders rally breaks Zorn Arena attendance record

Source: WEAU (Eau Claire, Wisconsin, NBC affiliate)

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) -- The scene inside the Zorn Arena in Eau Claire was packed on Saturday to listen to Bernie Sanders.

The line to get in Saturday morning ran from the Zorn Arena all the way up Garfield Hill.

The weather wasn’t great but people still came out in packs to support at the Sanders rally.

Over 3,400 people were inside the Zorn Arena Saturday; Sanders' campaign is estimating around 4,300 people total including those in an overflow room.... "I may not necessarily agree with every issue he has, but, in this field with our candidates, I have confidence he is the man with integrity and America's best interest at heart," Conner Franz of Stevens Point said.... "I was glad to find out that, not only did he say what he wanted to do, which sounded idealistic, but he actually seems to have a symbol of a plan,” Stephanie Turner of Eau Claire said.

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Trump would be least-popular major-party nominee in modern times

Source: Washington Post

If Donald Trump secures the Republican presidential nomination, he would start the general election campaign as the least-popular candidate to represent either party in modern times.

Three-quarters of women view him unfavorably. So do nearly two-thirds of independents, 80 percent of young adults, 85 percent of Hispanics and nearly half of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents.

Those findings, tallied from Washington Post-ABC News polling, fuel Trump’s overall 67 percent unfavorable rating — making Trump more disliked than any major-party nominee in the 32 years the survey has been tracking candidates.



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