Announcer washington journal continues. Host we continue our focus on wisconsin as part of washington journals midterm battleground series. Our rest is university of wisconsin madison lytic vassar Political Science Professor Larry burton. What is it about wisconsin that makes it a battleground state . And not just this cycle but at least since the year 2000 and maybe even before that. Guest i think that is what is stunning about wisconsin, it remains competitive even as the demographic in the state shifts. Like many states, there is in flux and out flux, populations in different parts of the state but there is sort of a magical balance that, as democrats, they gain democrats makings in one place, republicans gain elsewhere and they seem to offset perfectly. An example in madison, there is a large democratic vote thing to growing, booming part of the state, delivering a lot of votes to democrats but seems to be offset almost perfectly by the rise of republican votes in rural parts of th
Announcer washington journal continues. Host we continue our focus on wisconsin as part of washington journals midterm battleground series. Our rest is university of wisconsin madison lytic vassar Political Science Professor Larry burton. What is it about wisconsin that makes it a battleground state . And not just this cycle but at least since the year 2000 and maybe even before that. Guest i think that is what is stunning about wisconsin, it remains competitive even as the demographic in the state shifts. Like many states, there is in flux and out flux, populations in different parts of the state but there is sort of a magical balance that, as democrats, they gain democrats makings in one place, republicans gain elsewhere and they seem to offset perfectly. An example in madison, there is a large democratic vote thing to growing, booming part of the state, delivering a lot of votes to democrats but seems to be offset almost perfectly by the rise of republican votes in rural parts of th
Americas watching on cspan. Powered by cable. we continue our focus on wisconsin as part of washington journals midterm battleground series. Our rest is university of wisconsin madison lytic vassar Political Science Professor Larry burton. What is it about wisconsin that makes it a battleground state . And not just this cycle but at least since the year 2000 and maybe even before that. Guest i think that is what is stunning about wisconsin, it remains competitive even as the demographic in the state shifts. Like many states, there is in flux and out flux, populations in different parts of the state but there is sort of a magical balance that, as democrats, they gain democrats makings in one place, republicans gain elsewhere and they seem to offset perfectly. An example in madison, there is a large democratic vote thing to growing, booming part of the state, delivering a lot of votes to democrats but seems to be offset almost perfectly by the rise of republican votes in rural parts of t
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