Posted on 12/28/2014 5:54:16 AM PST by rellimpank
At first glance, Gov. Scott Walker’s re-election last month looks like a carbon copy of his victory four years earlier.
He won the same kinds of voters. He won the same parts of the state. And he won with virtually the same share of the vote: 52.25% in 2010 and 52.26% in 2014.
But on closer inspection, there is an important difference: Wisconsin is even more polarized today than it was four years ago.
Based on almost everything we know about the Nov. 4 election, the state’s fault lines are deeper and more sharply defined, its voters are more divided along party lines and its communities are more politically one-sided.
The Journal Sentinel explored these trends eight months ago in "Dividing Lines," a series of reports exploring the bitter political polarization across Wisconsin and its most divided place, metropolitan Milwaukee. Democrats and Republicans don’t just have different views; they live in separate worlds.
In the aftermath of the 2014 race for governor between Walker, the Republican incumbent, and Mary Burke, his Democratic challenger, at least two developments have become clear. One, Wisconsin grew noticeably more polarized between Scott Walker’s first and last race for governor, even though the governor’s margin of victory was the same; two, this trend follows a long-term pattern in Wisconsin elections for major office – governor, U.S. Senate, president.
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Life’s tough if you’re a cheese head - even tougher if you’re a prog cheese head.
“Translation: Progressives are whinny sore losers.”
When Progressives win, that’s healthy.
When Conservatives win, that’s just like Adolf Hitler seizing power.
I get it. /s/
IMHO
I like Walker
But I agree Menthops; the reasons are ‘beyond ‘ you
No! If you excise Chicago and Cook County Illinois is a conservative state.
My wife and I opted to stay put. The house is bursting at the seams with a teen and a tween, but we'll be packing one off to college in another year, and we won't need to downsize as empty nesters. As for the schools, we have sucked it up and paid for private schooling. Voucher the schools, or find some other way to fix urban public education, and many more middle class parents would stay in the city.
The cities are where young people go to play, and establish a career. The suburbs are where middle class people tend to go to raise children. Of course the suburbs are more conservative than the cities. Married with children is a heavily Republican demographic.
Remember me?
The lines are drawn: between the gimme group and their wannabe benefactors. I wonder how far the wannabes’ will go to feel good about themselves. Will they enslave the whole black community so they can pat themselves on the back?
Sherriff Clarke won again though....
Sheriff Clarke won again though....
Unfortunately I live in Illinois and I know many that move 'up north'.
Not so many moving south? (near zero)
Romney was a candy-a$$ candidate but it is remarkable how accurate his comment about the “forty-seven percent” has turned out to be, in many areas of the country.
We still have fifty percent who work and worship and pay and pay and pay.
Then there are the remainder who take and take and hate those who are taken from.
Not anymore they can't! Illinois' gone RED. Send 'em to Minnesooooooooooooooooooooooooooota! That's Socialist heaven, and that's where the moochers belong.
But on closer inspection, there is an important difference: Wisconsin is even more polarized today than it was four years ago.
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Obama spends his entire presidency whipping up racial tensions and even gets two police officers executed, yet nobody in the lapdog media would ever call him polarizing.
Conservatives outnumber liberals everywhere except Hawaii, and Washington, DC.
The most dangerous part are those who produce and at the same time encourage and enable the parasites. They have the money and talent that propel the “progressive” agenda.
It’s a Democratic mouthpiece.
So winning in a swing state counts for nothing? Walker has already done more than most “conservatives” in Washington.
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