The 2016 election in Wisconsin (And here we thought the GOP had a problem)

Source:  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

(99.83% of 2016 vote tallied)

2012-2016 % change in vote by party

• -0.25% Republicans
• -15.6% Democrats

3rd party tallies:

• Gary Johnson 106,091 (4%)
• Jill Stein 30,899 (1%)

Original 4/6/2016 post, "The  Case of the Quadrennial Democrats:  Voting as a spectator sport" starts here.

When it's not a November Presidential election

2008-2010 drop in Democratic vote totals:  40.1%
2008-2010 drop in Republican vote totals:    8.2%
2012-2014 drop in Democratic vote totals:  31.2%
2012-2014 drop in Republican vote totals:  11.0%

In yesterday's primary election, Republicans (with 52.3% of the vote) outpolled Democrats (47.7%) by 90,156.

Source:  The New York Times

No surprise then that Rebecca Bradley (52.4%) beat Joanne Kloppenburg (47.6%) by 91,613 votes -- 1,008,970 to 917,357.  (Four of Wisconsin's 3852 have not yet reported.)

A link to the entire 2014 Case of the Quadrennial Democrats series is found here.