GRAFTON, WI – Under candy-colored fall leaves and a bright blue sky, state Senate candidate Jodi Habush Sinykin and her best friend and campaign aide Carrie Steinberg were doing what had become their routine the last seven months: knocking on doors.
In the conservative area of Grafton, a village inside Wisconsin’s electorally crucial WOW counties of Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington, they diligently followed their mobile app house to house last week to try to speak with persuadable voters of all beliefs. They were hoping to find the women populating their list in the newly drawn district — potentially Republican, but disenchanted by the party’s strict actions on abortion and repulsed by former president Donald Trump. Instead, the voters who were opening the doors were only men.
“We need more wives!” Sinykin yelled out, exasperated but joking, after the fifth house.