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Contact: WisPolitics.com Editor JR Ross, 608-669-8418 MIDDLETON — More than a third of Democratic Party of Wisconsin conventioneers voting in a WisPolitics.com straw poll favored state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout for the party’s 2018 gubernatorial nomination. Vinehout, of Alma, was favored

Dem Chair Martha Laning, fresh off her re-election, said party activists gave her another two years at the helm because they’re “seeing real change happening” with the ground game she’s building in Wisconsin. The party suffered historic losses in 2016,
Contact: WisPolitics.com Editor JR Ross, 608-669-8418 MIDDLETON — More than a third of Democratic Party of Wisconsin conventioneers voting in a WisPolitics.com straw poll favored state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout for the party’s 2018 gubernatorial nomination. Vinehout, of Alma, was favored by 184, or 38 percent, of the 489 delegates, alternates

Dem Chair Martha Laning, fresh off her re-election, said party activists gave her another two years at the helm because they’re “seeing real change happening” with the ground game she’s building in Wisconsin. The party suffered historic losses in 2016, losing the state’s electoral votes in a presidential race for