Wisconsin
Wisconsin Republican Primary Results Mirror Illinois in Modern Era
The Badger and Prairie States have voted for the same Republican presidential candidate for 11 consecutive election cycles, with a victory margin differential usually within single digits between the two states
Read MoreWisconsin, Midwest Lag in Presidential Endorsements from US Representatives
None of the five Badger State US House members have formally backed a candidate with the Midwest at a regional low rate of 36 percent.
Read MoreThe Walker Effect? Wisconsin Ranks Dead Last in Donations to 2012 GOP Field
Utah, Connecticut, and Texas lead the way in large donor per capita contributions to Republican presidential candidates with Wisconsin, Arkansas, and Indiana at the bottom.
Read MoreScott Walker Faces 3rd Shortest Wisconsin Gubernatorial Tenure if Recalled
Only an acting governor and a governor who died on a Civil War relief expedition will have served fewer days in office than Walker.
Read MoreRon Paul Seeks First Primary/Caucus Win by GOP US Rep. Since 1964
Wisconsin’s John Byrnes won the last presidential contest for a sitting GOP U.S. House member 48 years ago; John Anderson came close in Massachusetts and Vermont in 1980.
Read MoreTammy Baldwin Seeks First Female Democratic U.S. Senate Nomination in Wisconsin History
Baldwin vies to become the second woman to receive a major party nod in a Badger State U.S. Senate contest joining Republican Susan Engeleiter.
Read MoreWisconsin Recall Vote Turnout Nearly 90 Percent of 2010 Levels
Turnout across six recall elections Tuesday was just 40,000 votes shy of top of the ticket voting in 2010’s gubernatorial race.
Read MoreCan Democrats Pick Up Three Wisconsin Senate Seats?
Democrats have recorded cycle-to-cycle gains of three or more Badger State Senate seats just 10 times over the last 64 election cycles since the mid-1880s.
Read MoreWill Any Century-Long Streaks End in 2012 U.S. Senate Races?
More than a dozen states have never popularly elected a GOP Senator while voting for a Democratic presidential nominee in the same cycle; will any break with tradition in 2012?
Read MoreCould Tommy Thompson Win Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate Seat?
No ex- (non-sitting) Wisconsin governor has ever been elected to a 1st term in the U.S. Senate
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