sales versus billionaires for not only this next election but for every election here on out. republicans run the table. bake sales on one side, billionaires on the other. that's it. this is an existential fight for the democratic party. democrats who don't get that are being willfully ignorant. this is an existential fight for the democratic party, and that's why democrats in wisconsin are doing what they are doing right now in wisconsin. that's why wisconsin looks the way it does right now. that's why the streets of madison were shut down to traffic today, because of the sheer number of people who turned out. that's why people slept in the capitol rotunda overnight. that's why the state legislature looked like this today. democratic legislators wearing orange t-shirts that read "assembly democrats fighting for working families." and that is why 14 democratic state senators in wisconsin went awol today. they refused to turn up for the anti-union vote scheduled in the state senate today. right around noon, these democrats just disappeared. and in their absence, the republicans could not get a