Posted on 03/23/2016 7:35:15 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Donald Trump has inspired a gaping regional divide among Republican voters in Wisconsin, reflecting many of the fault lines plaguing the GOP today.
In an upside-down version of a traditional campaign, the Republican front-runner is immensely unpopular in the reddest part of the state — the outer suburbs and exurbs that ring Milwaukee.
These are the party’s bedrock counties: Waukesha, Washington and Ozaukee. They typically dictate the outcome of GOP primaries like the one Wisconsin will hold for president April 5. And in fall elections, they’re arguably the best-performing Republican counties in America.
But GOP voters in these counties dislike Trump by a very large margin. In extensive polling by the Marquette University Law School, 25% view him positively and 64% view him negatively, for a “net favorability” — in his own party — of “minus 39.”
The picture is dramatically different at the other end of the state, in the small cities, towns and countryside of northern and western Wisconsin.
Here Trump’s favorability score is “plus 21” among Republicans: 53% view him positively and 32% view him negatively.
This geographic chasm reflects some of the key voting patterns seen in other states this year, including Trump’s strength in struggling white communities and his appeal to blue-collar Republicans.
It also follows the contours of the 2012 presidential primary map in Wisconsin, when Republican Rick Santorum won in the north and west while getting clobbered in the more populous southeast by Mitt Romney, the eventual nominee.
But the regional gap over Trump here is remarkable for its own reasons.
One is how dramatically attitudes vary from north to south in Wisconsin, shedding light on the kinds of Republicans Trump is turning on as well as turning off.
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No matter how many anti-Trump articles you push out, Cruz is never gonna win the nomination outright. You can stick that in your liberal pipe and smoke it. Jeez, its like I am on a DU forum here these days.
Mark Belling has been a propagandist for the Cheap Labor Express for years.
Even more can’t stand Ted Cruz.
Thanks for the post, I doubt I would have seen this article anywhere else. I don’t know Wisconsin at all and this was very interesting. I recommend reading the full article at the Journal-Sentinel website.
What’s amazing is that these “consistent conservatives” don’t realize they are being used by The Cheap Labor Express.
The “stop Trump” effort is in reality, stop the citizens from keeping their country.
Cruz has hopped on board.
In the so-called "open primaries," Trump scrapes out wins occasionally but never more than 50%.
RINO GOP led states like to keep their primaries open, otherwise they lose without the liberal's crossing over to vote for them!
Many states where closed primaries rule, RINOs continuously try to pressure voters into "opening" them up to all voters.
Just as in liberal run Democrat cities, they like to hold non-affiliated elections so voters don't get to see who actually supports all liberal causes, instead of supporting the people.
Vicki McKenna is also on a perpetual tirade against Trump - it’s really kind of sad to listen to them use lib tactics on air..
McKenna is a born again conservative - I think she’s channeling her far left roots..
That said - if Trump is really doing that bad in Waukesha / Washington & Ozaukee then that’s going to be really hard for Trump to overcome in Wisconsin.
It might be possible with Blue Collars in Milwaukee / Fox Valley & Green Bay.
I live in the WOW county area and am active in an article 5 group. Most of these people are well informed but they are still emotionally attached to the GOP in general which makes them go along with the GOPe. They still watch faux news, but they are also aware of the concept of the uni-party and oligarchy. I think that they still have some cognitive dissonance and a touch of Stockholm syndrome. They believe that the constitution is still generally in force and that the GOP leaders are trustworthy.
Trump is disliked because he gave money and said nice things about the Dems and hitlery in the past. Of course Trump did this as a form of tribute just as any rational businessman would do to pay off the mob bosses. To them, it is unforgiveable that Trump was not a tried and true GOPer all the time.
Keeping fingers crossed that he remains impartial.
Trump will do well with the blue collar workers of Wisconsin but the blue collar cheap labor express employers who live in Waukesha, Washington & Ozaukee.
The Establishment elite RINOs do want Hillary as POTUS because they think they can keep their power, perks, and influence. They are all about the status quo with the Donkeys of the Washington, DC Unipoarty cabal.
Trump smoked Cruz and the field in Florida and Arizona. Closed primaries.
You should feel really dumb now - go turn on talk radio again and get your “facts” lol
Wisconsin, the birthplace of progressivism.
Arizona was a closed primary and Trump won by 20 points.
How about economy destroying tariffs and his support for government mandated and paid healthcare? It is hard to nail down specifics on a guy whose only description of his policies is that they’ll be “great”, “huge”, “you’ll love it”.
It is also hard to believe he means what he says when he changes positions on issues in the course of days or when his positions now are so different from the ones he took even in recent years. This is a guy, after all, who said that Obama “saved us from a depression” and was doing a “good job”. The same guy who said that Hillary Clinton would be “a great President” and that she was the one he trusted with Iran because she “surrounded herself with great people” and “made great deals”. (Sound like someone else he’s talked about lately?)
I read further and see that his endorsement is coming soon to a theatre near you.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412685/posts?q=1&;page=1
Don’t forget the fact that he has voted for Obama and given thousands of dollars to Democrats to defeat Republicans. The stupid GOP’s open primaries have been hijacked by the Democrats, with millions of Democrats voting for Trump. He will get the nomination, and they will vote for Hillary.
Trumpmaniacs won’t know what hit them.
Or the parasites and the leeches are the crony capitalists who used their donor dollars to buy preferential treatment from the poltical class and now are afraid their arrangements to get preferential treatment form the political class are going to come to an end.
If Trump is winning on Democrat cross over votes then so few people are showing up to vote for the GOP this year the GOP will lose across the board in Nov.
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