There’s counsel for a moderate, and
That sounds sensible to me, a Wisconsin swing voter, but if Democrats believe Walker is almost surely going to win, they might prefer a firebrand who can cause him some pain. That’s exactly what didn’t happen in the 2012 recall election, when the candidate was the dull Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett, who’d already lost to Walker in the 2010 election.
Via Should Wisconsin Democrats go left to challenge Scott Walker? @ Althouse.