FlexibleToast

You're still underplaying what happened.

Wisconsin as a whole does tend to lean blue. The margins aren't large though. Last mid term Evers (D) won for governor but the same election Johnson (R) won for senate. The Democrat opposition for that election was Barnes, who was definitely progressive leaning, but ran a terrible campaign that the DNC didn't help until it was too late. We are still a swing state.

isn't the result of conservatives turning on Trump

Nobody is saying it is. It's that group of swing voters that have immediately changed from liking Trump to rejecting Elon and Trump. You'll never turn his cult base, but you also don't have to.

I agree with your idea, but I also appreciate that they've dropped the facade.

But it is a refute to the idea that there is a "voter mandate" for Trump. This was a state wide election that just a few months ago voted for Trump. It also isn't as simple as the democrats keeping their seat. The incumbent left, so the seat was vacant. Not a "trouncing," but you're downplaying it too much.

Notsure

Sell targeted ads based on information they learn about you. It's a pretty straightforward business model.

I think you can throw Colbert on that list.

I don't think that they think that. I do think that they think you don't deserve a house if you work at McDonalds.

She's still the one that the press asks questions.

Not usually. Some states require you to declare a party to vote in the primary. Some states just let you show up for a primary and say which one you want.

I don't know. If Reagan said it, now I question if it actually is a good idea...

Because they were being pressured from the credit card companies to do that.