2018 midterms expose Wisconsin's shifting political fault lines
Wisconsin keeps swinging. It swung in 2018, as it swung in 2016, as it swung in 2012, as it swung in 2010, as it swung in 2006.
But if Wisconsin’s battleground status seems undiminished, there are also signs the sands are shifting underfoot.
So many factors figured into the narrow defeat of GOP Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday, among them a tsunami of Democratic votes in the blue bastions of Dane and Milwaukee counties.
But one with major implications for the future involved the suburban counties outside Milwaukee that have long been Walker’s political bedrock.
Read more: https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/08/wisconsin-elections-expose-states-shifting-political-fault-lines/1535484002/
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