Election results: Wikipedia
3rd party votes: 29.3% in 1992, 20.9% in 1996, 5.8% in 2016
(The seed is planted: Alabama segregationist George Wallace
received 11.6% of the vote in 1968)
Wisconsin Public Radio, 1/14/2024
A confirmed case of mumps in Clark County, which has one of the state’s lowest rates of vaccination against measles, mumps, and rubella, or MMR, has public health officials on alert.
Related reading:
New York Times, 1/13/2025
Most American parents hardly give thought to polio beyond the instant their child is immunized against the disease. But there was a time in this country when polio paralyzed 20,000 people in a year, killing many of them.
Vaccines turned the tide against the virus. Over the past decade, there has been only one case in the United States, related to international travel.
That could change very quickly if polio vaccination rates dropped or the vaccine were to become less accessible.
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