Aggressive new abortion restrictions take hold in Wisconsin

[Ed Suspicious]

31. I support my statement by pointing you to the fact that Wisconsin's 11 and recently ten

electoral votes have gone each election to the Democrat's candidate for president since the 1984 Reagan near sweep. Over the course of the last 30 years Democrat's total number of votes has increased each election cycle from around 1 million votes to a high point during Obama's first election of 1.67 million votes. There was a slight drop off during his second term that pushed the total amount of dems to the polls at 1.62 million, but it was still a strong number compared to the 1.25 (McCain) and 1.4 million (Romney) for the repuke candidate.

Democrats still hold a majority in this state's voting population.

Add to that the fact that we put Tammy Baldwin, the country's first openly gay Senator (who happens to be proudly liberal) into the senate over longtime (and I should say heavily favored) republican stalwart Tommy Thompson.

We are a very purple state whose urban centers vote heavily into blue territory.

Now, it may seem obvious to an outsider that we're solidly red, because of the loss of Feingold to Dumbass Johnson, and the Walker governorship as well as the red senate and assembly, but I put forward to you that much of the latter is due to very safely gerrymandered single member districts that are nearly impossible nuts to crack. It just isn't the reality that we are in recent history historically and firmly a red state.

Another indicator I point to is that strong historical protests over the Governor's Act 10 which had hundreds of thousands converging on the capitol in protest just a few short years ago. We (Democrats) seem to run shitty candidates in gubernatorial elections recently. I am unsure why this is, but tragically it is born out as true. But again, I assert, we are not a hopeless red state worthy of derision.

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/results/wisconsin

http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/politics/2004_ELECTIONRESULTS_GRAPHIC/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Wisconsin,_2000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Wisconsin,_1996

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Wisconsin,_1992

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1988