No one would know that it was a completely blank voting ballot. In fact, it might be rejected by an electronic reading machine, as it would likely be programmed to reject a completely blank ballot as one that is likely a mistake.

Oh, I have often left a race blank. Either didn't know enough to make an informed choice, or didn't see that any of the candidates were worthy of my vote. What it seemed to be advocating in your post was just turning in a blank ballot. Which would seem to just be a waste of time.

Yes, sorry. Getting a bit ahead of myself. But there's no R opposition (not that one with that designation could ever win in current MKE), and no way a write in would be able to garner enough votes. So, he's a shoe-in. And he's already won 3 previous elections.

I assume you meant he won his primary. Of course there may not be any opposition as I understand it.

Fred

Sheriff David Clarke, Dem, Milwaukee County. Just won re-election. Definitely no lib.

I agree, but among democrats please name one that's not a lib. as to republicans being conservative I must sadly agree with only one or two exceptions.

I'm not sure that they considered themselves, nor did their readers consider them, fair and even handed. As opposed to the current crop of lefties who think they are fair and even handed, and the one entity that isn't far left is viewed as far right.

Glad Jeff was so timid in his opinion.

Sorry, Russ, but your analysis is all wet. Whenever something nefarious happens with a politician, it is assumed that it is a republican. Just ask some folks sometime about a new scandal with a non-household name politician.

I think I'm just too dense for that humor.

Dems are not always lib, and Repubs are not always (and seemingly nowadays, never) conservative.

I don't think so. I wasn't criticizing spelling, grammar or vocab. Do you think that what I advised was incorrect?

And the stomped or stumped query was an honest one. I didn't (and still don't) understand how the original post "stomped" allosaur. Maybe I'm just dense.

Why would anyone do that? It would have the same effect as not voting at all, except wouldn't have been a waste of time.

I'm not sure what the "Not always Fred," referred to. As I stated, " ...parties are representatives of a general point of view, i.e. Democrats-Liberal, Republicans-Conservative." Of course one could argue that Republicans seldom stick to a Conservative view in reality."

We are not all that much apart in our beliefs. I can understand the situation with the Sheriff's position, but I'm not sure about your reference to Scott Walker. That he's a Conservative is well understood by me. Whether or not he would have won his first election is a little confusing to me, are you referring to the county executive position of the governors? He won his recall election because he was a Conservative that cut taxes, threw out the unions and managed to have a surplus.

As to Clark having an advantage as a black man would depend on whether the county has a larger black population or not. In the past two elections, black conservatives have done fairly well. Granted that there are few of them, but when they are they usually get a high percentage of the white vote. That's not always true, maryland with a large black city (Baltimore) population is the perfect example where a conservative whether black or white has little chance of winning.

Fred