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All those votes for Cruz further illustrate how deep Wisconsin’s provincialism runs. These voters apparently weren’t cognizant of Cruz’s pitiful prospects going forward nationally.

I myself wouldn't attribute "all those votes for Cruz" to Wisconsin provincialism.

I think these voters were FULLY cognizant of Cruz’s pitiful prospects going forward nationally.

That's because I think that a lot of the Cruz voters in certain counties were Democrats. :)

Wisconsin has an open primary, and the Democrat party has a big problem. Sanders and Clinton are beating the stuffing out of each other.

I suspect that to gain the party some breathing room, orders came down for the WI big city machines to deliver for Cruz.

It's not illegal, it's not vote fraud - it's just a cross-over vote.

Waukesha County, Wisconsin:

2016
   Cruz      75123
   Trump     27186	
   Kasich    18521	
     total: 120830

   Sanders   26339
   Clinton   24784
     total:  51123

2016 total: 171953

2012
   Romney    51329
   Santorum  23874
   other      7489
      total: 82692

   Obama      9442
      total:  9442

2012 total:  92134

2008
   McCain    28160
   Huckabee  13926
   other      1313
      total: 43399

   Obama     37662
   Clinton   34009
      total: 71671

2008 total: 115070

Fascinating numbers. Note the 20,000 disappearing Democrats from 2008 to 2016. :)

Also note that Cruz, a social conservative, wins YUGE over supposed "squish" Trump. Whereas in 2012 & 2008, the squishes Romeny & McCain stomp the stuffing out of social conservatives Santorum & Huckabee.

Did Waukesha County suddenly get religion? Not hardly...

My sister runs a voters precinct in Madison in a very Democratic neighborhood. Of the 485 votes or so (approximate number), just 55 (exact) went to GOP candidates. Trump got 24; Cruz 22 and the remaining nine were split up among Kasich, Rubio, Carson, Paul, Christie etc. All the other votes in that precinct went Democratic. She’s been running this precinct for the past 30 years and said the very small percent of GOP votes in this case was typical. So at least in that precinct it doesn’t look like there were any crossover Dem votes for Cruz.