Editorial | Welcome home Kamala, Madison is going to beat you! – The Capital Times

Vice President Kamala Harris will campaign in Madison Wednesday night at a rally at the Kohl Center expected to draw more than 15,000 excited supporters. It will be a homecoming for Harris, who lived for a time on the city’s west side when her father taught economics at UW-Madison and her mother was a pioneering cancer researcher.

On Nov. 5, Harris will almost certainly win Madison and Dane County. Described in a recent Atlantic magazine article as “the place where everyone votes,” Dane County’s voter turnout rate was 89 percent in 2020. And 75 percent of voters backed the Democratic ticket, giving Harris and Joe Biden a 181,385-vote boost in a closely contested race for Wisconsin’s electoral votes.

This year, the mobilization has been stepped up, and Harris regularly visits Dane County. Can voter turnout exceed 90%? Can Harris’ vote break 80%? Can this region help swing the statewide and national vote to Harris?

We hope so, because we’d love to see a Madisonian in the White House.

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