With the recalls concluded one blogger sees Wisconsin returning to a 50/50 state. I recommend the entire article.
If there’s one signal Wisconsin voters have sent in two tumultuous 2011 elections, it’s that parity is back.After a Democratic blow-out in 2008 and a Republican blow-out in 2010, we’re looking at a different electorate in 2011 and probably 2012, something closer to the Wisconsin of 2000 and 2004, two jump-ball presidential contests decided by less than half a percentage point.
What’s the evidence for that?
On April 5, in the state’s most politicized Supreme Court election in memory, a million and a half Wisconsinites split their votes almost perfectly down the middle. The conservative candidate got 50.18% and the liberal candidate got 49.71%.
