MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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What makes Wisconsin swing? News sources & conversation partners lead the way.
By artappraiser on Fri, 03/29/2019 - 7:04pm |This post is part of Mischiefs of Faction, an independent political science blog featuring reflections on the party system.
By a team of eight (!) reporters @ Vox.com, March 29
A few months after majorities of Wisconsin voters re-elected Democrat Tammy Baldwin to the US Senate with a 10-point cushion but only sent Republican Governor Scott Walker packing by a razor-thin margin, the Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez announced that the city of Milwaukee will host the 2020 Democratic National Convention. Given the roughly 12 percent of voters who split their ticket in Wisconsin in 2018, the Badger State is once again a focal point of an upcoming presidential election [....]
What is happening in Wisconsin? How is it that more than one in ten voters split their tickets in such a polarized state? [....]
URL:
https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2019/3/29/18286836/wisconsin-swing-vote-democratic-primary
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