Headline: Washington Post, 9/6/2023
The best way to summarize the imbalance at play in Wisconsin’s legislative elections is to consider the results of Assembly contests in 2016 and 2018.
Every two years, all 99 Assembly seats are put in front of voters. In 2016, Republicans won 64 of those seats, 65 percent of the total, while winning only 52 percent of the votes cast in Assembly races across the state. Democrats won 35 seats.
Two years later, in the national Democratic wave election, Democratic Assembly candidates won 53 percent of the votes cast — a six-point margin of victory. Perhaps you might assume, then, that they’d have landed somewhere around 64 seats, given how close that figure is to the Republican vote total in 2016. But the Democrats did not win 64 seats in the Assembly. They won only 36 — one more than when the Republican Assembly candidates beat Democrats by six points statewide in 2016. [emphasis added]
According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of 'bonkers", as in not mentally sound, occurred in 1945.
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- firestorm
- hard sell
- schizo
- sheeple
We have this white male menagerie to thank for the state's current maps.
Meet the defenders of fair elections.
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