Election Day in Wisconsin (2 of ?): The Barrett concession.

I think there were 2 reasons why people booed their own candidate when he conceded (which you can quite obviously hear during his concession speech, and also occurred in the union hall where I was watching results come in) -

First (and less importantly), volunteers had false optimism, and thought that enough results hadn't been counted yet.

Second (and more importantly), there hadn't been enough ballots in Racine and areas of Milwaukee, and there was a rumor going around that people were still in line and hadn't voted.

I had been talking with a (black) school teacher from the area just a half hour earlier, and she and a(n older) (black) union guy from Chicago, and they were talking about the "shortage" of ballots.

"Of course there was a shortage," he was like, and just shook his head.

All the (white) Wisconsin people totally get that sort of vote suppression tricks now, after all the voter ID stuff that has been going on there, and were just totally disgusted by how blatant stuff was...

Even if it was clear Barrett lost, everyone said, he shouldn't have given a speech till everyone had voted, and made a point that he wouldn't say anything till all votes were in, as a point of process and a point of justice.

That he didn't do that - or see the opportunity for it? - makes me wonder about him as a politician.  He really upset his base.