Wisconsin is NOT blue.
It’s roughly 50-50 by voting population.
By county its almost all red.
Remove Milwaukee and Madison and it’s overwhelmingly red.
The only reason why people have the misperception it’s blue is because the democrats have had an extensive cheating network here being bolstered by the Illinois democrat cheating machine.
I live here and have for most of my life. I know what I am talking about.
I call Wisconsin Purple. Media calls it blue because it has gone to democrats in presidential elections for many cycles.
Thanks Secret-serviceman: What you say about Wisconsin is almost the exact same for Minnesota. Outside the Twin Cities and Duluth, it is a nearly universal sea of red on the maps.
What we are seeing is a microcosm of the nation. The blue on US map is almost universally restricted to the east and west coasts, and only the large cities will show up blue on the other states’ maps.
Name one blue state where, if you removed the heavily populated cities, it isn’t almost all red. Take away LA/SF and, voila, CA as red as it gets. Same for NY without NYC and its ‘burbs. IL without Chicago is nice and red. Etc., etc., etc. Nothing special about WI on that score.
But as noted here and elsewhere, WI has not given its electoral votes to a Republican presidential candidate since 1984 when Reagan swept the whole country, except his opponent’s home state.