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Why presidential campaigns heap attention on western Wisconsin
Western Wisconsin is attracting more attention in this campaign than its population alone might dictate.
But that isn’t exactly new.
This mostly rural, unusually swingy, highly strategic region is home to about 1 in 6 Wisconsin voters.
It is the closest thing in any battleground state to “Obama-Trump country” — home to almost 300 communities that voted for Democrat Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012, then Republican Trump in both 2016 and 2020.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/analysis/2024/09/06/western-wisconsin-attracts-intense-election-attention-heres-why/75076157007/