Is vote fraud common in American politics? Not according to United States District Judge Lynn Adelman, who examined the evidence from Wisconsin and ruled in late April that “virtually no voter impersonation occurs” in the state and that “no evidence suggests that voter-impersonation fraud will become a problem at any […] Read more »
Legacy of Wisconsin’s polarization: No consensus, little common ground
There are more than a million and a half people in metropolitan Milwaukee, yet few can expect to cast a truly meaningful vote in a congressional election in the fall. They likely won’t cast a meaningful vote in a state Senate election this fall either. Or a state Assembly election. […] Read more »
Democratic, Republican voters worlds apart in divided Wisconsin
In the acrid and escalating clash between red and blue America, there is no battleground quite like metropolitan Milwaukee. Spectacularly divided, remarkably mobilized, frequently fought over, its politically lopsided communities have been veering apart for more than 40 years. Democrats and Republicans aren’t just strangers to each other in their […] Read more »
In Governors’ Races This Year, Lessons for 2016
… [Scott] Walker is one of eight Republican governors facing re-election who swept into office in 2010 in states that President Obama won two years earlier, driven by the Tea Party at the height of its influence. … But perhaps the most closely watched races will be in four Northern […] Read more »
Right vs. Left in the Midwest
Minnesota and Wisconsin share much more than bone-chilling winters: German and Northern European roots; farming; and, until recently, a populist progressive tradition stretching back a century to Wisconsin’s Fighting Bob La Follette and the birth of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. But in 2010 these cousin states diverged. By doing so they […] Read more »
Overview of the Fall 2013 Wisconsin Survey Results
St. Norbert College and Wisconsin Public Radio released the results of their fall 2013 Wisconsin Survey. Wendy Scattergood, assistant political science professor and associate to the Strategic Research Institute at St. Norbert College, provides an overview of the key survey results. St. Norbert College Read more »