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Wisconsin

Jackpine Radical

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3. Easy. Both Baldwin & Obama were elected in a statewide vote.

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Sat Dec 8, 2012, 08:50 PM

Dec 2012

State Senators & Assemblycritters were elected from gerrymandered districts. A majority of the votes cast for state offices were for Democrats, but the Dem votes were sorta "caged"; the Dems who won did so by overwhelming majorities, while the Republicans were elected by closer votes. That's how gerrymandering works.

Here's a spreadsheet I put together for the US HOuse of Representatives that shows what happened:

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Have Badger State DU'ers come up with an explanation for this? [View all] Ken Burch Dec 2012 OP

It's likely gerrymandering ladym55 Dec 2012 #1

Hopefully, if Obama gets to fill some more judicial vacancies Ken Burch Dec 2012 #2

Lots of gerrymandering LTR Dec 2012 #7

Also no more straight party ballots, possible corrupted software (like Diebold) + corrupted locals bobthedrummer Dec 2012 #12

Easy. Both Baldwin & Obama were elected in a statewide vote. Jackpine Radical Dec 2012 #3

The 2010 election......the gift that just keeps giving. yourout Dec 2012 #8

VOTE STEALING Pharaoh Dec 2012 #4

I hated the outcome of the recall, but how was it stolen? Bonduel Dec 2012 #11

Gerrymandering plus rural count for some state local results elfin Dec 2012 #5

I agree, it's really hard to be here if you have a memory of what was HereSince1628 Dec 2012 #6

Low information voter schizophrenia helped as well. sybylla Dec 2012 #9

I asked the same question, and a possible explanation was given about the Republicans midnight Dec 2012 #10