Can young people take back Wisconsin from Scott Walker's hard-right grip?

Walker has undone Wisconsin’s progressive past and turned it into a lab for rightwing governance – but millennials have a different vision for the future

Dominic Rushe In Wisconsin

Tue 30 Oct 2018 01.00 EDT Last modified on Tue 30 Oct 2018 11.22 EDT

Scott Walker has governed Wisconsin since 2010 – but polling suggests Walker is in the fight of his life this time around.

Walker has undone Wisconsin’s progressive past and turned it into a lab for rightwing governance – but millennials have a different vision for the future.

Outside the Chazen Art Museum on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a shark, a banana and Nada Elmikashfi are trying to corral students to the polls for the first day of voting.

Madison, the liberal heart and state capital of Wisconsin, is in the final stages of a squeakingly tight race to decide the political future of this once progressive state that is now deeply conservative – at least in terms of policy.

Like many of the young voters on campus, Elmikashfi, a fellow with NextGen America, a liberal political advocacy group, is determined to reverse the state’s decade-long lurch to the right. Beneath a cornflower blue sky Elmikashfi and two friends in fancy dress are handing out leaflets explaining why this midterm vote is so important. And why is it so vital to her? “I’m a black Muslim woman and an immigrant,” she says. “I am trying to reclaim my voice.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/30/wisconsin-scott-walker-rightwing-republican-young-people

And the main stream tv media is saying what again...................the young people are not voting..............I think that is BS, I think they are voting..............