Only one week after entering the race to run against Robin Vos, Robert Prailes dropped out of the race this morning after alleged attacks on his family.  Prailes' Facebook page held the following statement today:

For those of us of a certain age, the events of fifty years ago today are vivid. I was ending my junior year in High School, worrying about the draft, worrying about heading off to college in a year, and worried about a gazillion other things. It was a trying time, although I suppose when you are 17 everything is trying. 

This morning WisPolitics is reporting that the Wisconsin Democratic Convention will move to an all-virtual format this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Previously the party had announced that the convention would move to a scaled-back format, but there will now be no in-person aspects to the convention.

If there's one truism in American politics these days, it seems to be that political division is pervasive. State supreme court elections in the battleground state of Wisconsin are a perfect illustration of the powerful role that partisan divides can play in ostensibly nonpartisan races, even when the vote is conducted in the middle of a pandemic.