Wisconsin, Ground Zero for 2020 Politics, Looks Like a Tossup Again

… For Democrats, an intense effort to rebuild their Midwestern “blue wall” for 2020 is showing gains in Michigan and Pennsylvania, both of which President Trump captured in 2016. On Tuesday, Democrats flipped a key Pennsylvania State Senate seat that Republicans had long held outside Pittsburgh. But in Wisconsin, the […] Read more »

What makes Wisconsin swing?

… For the past seven years, our Communication and Civic Renewal research group has been studying contentious politics in Wisconsin. We are particularly interested in how the state’s communication ecology interacts with political, economic and social contexts to affect how people engage in politics. The graphs below show that people’s […] Read more »