A Few Takeaways From Elon Musk's Utter Humiliation in Wisconsin

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Republicans did, after all, manage to get Wisconsin voters to enshrine into the state constitution a requirement to show a photo ID when voting, a referendum that Musk has bragged about.
43% : According to political scientists John Sides, Daron Shaw, and Matt Grossman in Campaigns and Elections, in local races, "a better-funded candidate can totally eclipse a relatively impoverished opponent," and that just isn't what happened here.
41% : It's not even clear that the hundreds of millions of dollars that Musk himself poured into the election were a net positive for the GOP at all, since the party tended to do worse in states where Trump mounted a visible campaign than where he and his movement were mostly background noise and could more credibly pretend they weren't going to do all the horrific things they are now doing.
33% : Musk has probably received undue credit for Republicans' stunning but extremely narrow victories in the November 2024 elections, and Donald Trump is reportedly already reconsidering his role in the administration.
19% : Given that his approval ratings are even worse than Trump's, Musk was always going to be a net negative in this contest.

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