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TexasTowelie

(116,813 posts)
Thu Nov 8, 2018, 08:09 AM Nov 2018

2018 midterms expose Wisconsin's shifting political fault lines

Wisconsin keeps swinging. It swung in 2018, as it swung in 2016, as it swung in 2012, as it swung in 2010, as it swung in 2006.

But if Wisconsin’s battleground status seems undiminished, there are also signs the sands are shifting underfoot.

So many factors figured into the narrow defeat of GOP Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday, among them a tsunami of Democratic votes in the blue bastions of Dane and Milwaukee counties.

But one with major implications for the future involved the suburban counties outside Milwaukee that have long been Walker’s political bedrock.

Read more: https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/08/wisconsin-elections-expose-states-shifting-political-fault-lines/1535484002/

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2018 midterms expose Wisconsin's shifting political fault lines (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2018 OP
thanks for posting that..give hope to those of us in the wow nightmare dembotoz Nov 2018 #1
 

dembotoz

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1. thanks for posting that..give hope to those of us in the wow nightmare
Thu Nov 8, 2018, 10:52 AM
Nov 2018

the long hours spent working to put a stake in walkers heart seem more worth it now

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