Expect Republican Gov. Scott Walker, if he runs for president in 2016, to repeatedly tout the fact that he won election three times in four years in Wisconsin, a purple state. But is Walker’s feat really all that impressive? …
Some conservatives have argued, however, that merely looking at Walker’s margin of victory misses a key point: Walker is really conservative. He implemented conservative policies in a purple state, and he was still re-elected by the margin you’d expect of an average Republican.
I tend to agree with this line of thinking. CONT.
Harry Enten, FiveThirtyEight