Next week's special Senate election first to test national Democratic wave in Wisconsin

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I will be phone banking tomorrow. Lots of well off people live here now along the St Croix. It has become very gentrified sorry to say.





Next week's special Senate election first to test national Democratic wave in Wisconsin


http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/next-week-s-special-senate-election-first-to-test-national/article_41d91ff1-8a11-5417-a875-edcdd5acbedd.html

MATTHEW DeFOUR [e-mail] Jan 10, 2018

Sen. Sheila Harsdorf's appointment to Gov. Scott Walker's cabinet triggered next Tuesday's special election.

MICHELLE STOCKER, THE CAPITAL TIMES


Next Tuesday’s special Senate election in northwestern Wisconsin will be the first indicator of whether a surge in Democratic electoral success last year around the country is coming to Wisconsin in 2018.

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, and a tumultuous first year in office in which his job approval rating plummeted, Democrats received more votes than expected in state and federal special elections last year, even in races they lost, according to multiple reports.

There were 98 special legislative elections last year across the country, with Democrats picking up 11 seats held by Republicans, according to election-tracking website ballotpedia.com. That was the biggest gain for Democrats in at least seven years.

The political number-crunchers at fivethirtyeight.com reviewed the 2017 results and previous voting history in each district and found the Democratic vote total in special elections was 12 points higher than in previous elections.

Pollsters at ALG Research, a Washington-based research company that works with Democrats including Barack Obama’s campaign, drew a similar conclusion. They found Democrats in legislative special elections last year improved upon Obama’s 2012 vote percentage difference versus Mitt Romney in those same districts by 6 points and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 vote percentage difference versus Donald Trump in those districts by 12.1 points.

It’s unclear whether that Democratic voter enthusiasm will translate to a win in Wisconsin’s 10th Senate District. Obama lost the district by 6 points in 2012 and Clinton lost it by 17 points in 2016.
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Neil Kraus, chairman of the political science department at UW-River Falls, said at this point every race for state or national office will be some kind of referendum on Trump. He said the district has become increasingly conservative over time with more upper-middle-income white voters moving into the St. Croix County suburbs of Minneapolis.

“If the Democrats are even in the ballpark, it’s not a great sign for the Republican Party,” he said.
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[WhiteTara]

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[LisaM]

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