Paper Finds that Bradley/Wilder Effect Has Disappeared With Crime/Poverty issues

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Regarding Wisconsin...the only Democrat to lose statewide in years is Louis Butler, who is black.  He lost twice running for the State Supreme Court.  In his first race, he was polling behind and lost by more than the polling showed.  Then Gov Jim Doyle appointed him to the court and he lost his re-election bid (first time that happened in many, many years...you get in and you are usually in for life) and was leading in all the pre-election polls.  State Supreme Court is supposed to be a non-partisan race, but it was cast as Democrat vs Republican, Liberal vs Conservative, both times.  Not sure if it's an example of the Bradley effect, but it was pretty interesting.