Update: Voices too often missing in op-ed land: women's

via mal contends - One of my favorite political sites is WiscOpinion.

But take a look at WiscOpinion and you see a disturbing trend, echoed across the state: Few women writers expressing their political views in blogs.

It's not sexism by WiscOpinion or any other site, it's a lack of women expressing their voices.

Consider another of my favorite sites: Uppity Wisconsin.

I know women writers here, but they write under a pseudomyn, safety being an obvious concern.

There are notable exceptions:

- Milwaukee Rising

Very little needs to be added to commentary on the campaign of Supreme Court candidate Michael Gableman who is a disgrace to an entire branch of government.

Justice Louis Butler's campaign sent out an e-mail this morning to attorneys across the state that sums up well why Gableman will be defeated tomorrow. It is published below:

Dear Friends:

As you probably already know, the Milwaukee and Waukesha County Bar Associations have done polls related to the qualifications of the various candidates for Wisconsin Supreme Court.

The election is this Tuesday, April 1.

Nine out of 10 of those who expressed an opinion in Milwaukee said that Justice Louis Butler was qualified. Only about a third said the same about his opponent, Michael Gableman.

In Waukesha, over 80% of those expressing an opinion said that Justice Butler was qualified.Barely half said the same about his opponent. His opponent's campaign is claiming that these results are skewed because Mr.Gableman currently serves as a judge far away from Milwaukee in Burnett County, a small, rural jurisdiction in the far northwest corner of the state.

Update: John Nichols: A Baldwin shift to Obama could send crucial message

Voters in US Rep. Tammy Baldwin’s 2nd congressional district in Wisconsin on Feb. 19 delivered a resounding victory to Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton—65 to 34 percent.

As a superdelegate, Rep. Baldwin has pledged her support behind Hillary Clinton.

Now Clinton has engaged in unrelenting negative attacks on Obama using the Republican tactics of personal destruction, dubbed the “kitchen sink” strategy. [See Dear Hillary, We're Breaking Up for an instructive overview.]

In this despicable enterprise, Clinton is destined to fail, but not without first doing a lot of harm.