I just noticed something interesting about Wisconsin’s voting paterns in presidential elections over the past 80 years. Looking at elections in 20-year intervals commencing in 1928, the state voted Republican in 1928, Democrat in 1948, Republican in 1968, and Democrat in 1988-—only Iowa voted the same way. And if we look at the preceeding election to each such election (i.e., at the election 4 years earlier), we see that Wisconsin did not vote for the Republican in 1924, did not vote for the Democrat in 1944, did not vote for the Republican in 1964, and did not vote for the Democrat in 1984. Well, if the pattern continues, Wisconsin will vote for Republican presidential candidate John McCain in 2008, since the state voted for the Democrat not just in 1988 but also 2004.
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Wisconsin has a large German Catholic population, who are socially conservative, but have soome isolationist and anti-business leanings.
Sweet.
It’s due.