Jessica McBride is also looking for reasons to choose Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett instead of Gov. Scott Walker:

Mayor Tom Barrett increasingly seems to be running a “throw everything you can and see what sticks” campaign. …

And so we’re told we should oust Gov. Scott Walker midterm because, well, Walker’s supposedly the really, really angry guy (OK, whatever). Or he’s making us all really angry at each other (whatever).

We’re told we should go through the disruption of doing something we’ve never done before, oust a governor midterm, because he’s mean to women (or something).

We’re told we should oust him because some monthly jobs figures weren’t great, even though Milwaukee’s jobs figures aren’t great. And then, when Walker, under fire over jobs before he’s had a chance to really implement a job reform agenda, produces a report that shows the state has gained jobs under his tenure, we’re told we shouldn’t vote for him because he released it early. …

There are also murky asides about that looming John Doe investigation in Milwaukee County. Although the specter of that is obviously concerning, right now it hasn’t snaked its way up to Walker. So right now it’s just shadowy allegations or aides who allegedly did bad things. …

If you believe the polls, Walker is actually increasing his lead. I think this is partly because the Democrats haven’t settled on a coherent, clear message for why we need to be going through all this. They need one. Walker is not just an incumbent. He’s an incumbent they are trying to toss out of office in the middle of his term. That’s a really big deal. People get this. It means they are looking for Democrats to clearly make the case — the case for why we should.

Instead, Democrats are tossing up such a flurry of charges that no one has a clue what they are talking about anymore.

The upshot is in McBride’s last sentence: “… the fact his opponents haven’t been able to clearly explain why his central reform (remember that?) was so bad.”