Wisconsin Megathread

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Why were Senate districts 3 and 7 drawn the way they were?

There are some Republican stranded in Assembly district 7 and a lot of liberals in Assembly district  19. These could be exchanged.

Assembly districts 7, 20, 21 total out to roughly a 55% Obama district.

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One really useful thing would be to caption each senate district with the components of its house districts.


IE:

SD-07: DDR
SD-11: RRR


Good maps though.

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Court order says that legislature/gov must redraw legislative districts before 2018 election.  State plans to appeal to SCOTUS.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/judges-to-state-redraw-legislative-districts-before-election/article_bff10235-7420-57f0-a185-c0f8939ca9b4.html

Great news! We can gerrymander much better districts given that the unions have been destroyed and the Wisconsin Democrat party is a rump party in the state. Look how badly that has been Feingold got thrashed.

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Court order says that legislature/gov must redraw legislative districts before 2018 election.  State plans to appeal to SCOTUS.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/judges-to-state-redraw-legislative-districts-before-election/article_bff10235-7420-57f0-a185-c0f8939ca9b4.html

Great news! We can gerrymander much better districts given that the unions have been destroyed and the Wisconsin Democrat party is a rump party in the state. Look how badly that has been Feingold got thrashed.

Um, this ruling would make political gerrymandering illegal.

No, not really. The specific order, which probably won't even last, is to redraw the maps. We can make them better.

Since the rump party is condensed to only a handful of counties in Wisconsin, they have a geographic/distributional problem. Barry used to have widespread support in Wisconsin.

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St Norbert is an awful pollster. Their last poll in late October had Feingold up 12 and Clinton up 8 in WI.

Walker knows how to win in Wisconsin. He has truly smart divide and Conquer tactics.

We shall see if he can boost the Senate nominee too!

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No redistricting for Wisconsin! Big Neil G to the rescue.

Link


The justices voted 5-4 to stay a requirement that the state file a new redistricting plan by Nov. 1. All four justices nominated by Democratic presidents dissented.

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There's no real big House races and the Gov race is a foregone conclusion.  But, the one in PA with PA 06, 07 and 08 at stake will matter in control of the House.

PA-17 is a district that Trump won by 10 points that will have to expand by something like 80k red voters.

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Tammy Baldwin must be scared with only 38%!

Walker will win again by 5.