This gets me back up-to-date and, I am sure, a less “gloomy” analysis than that for Pennsylvania. It has been a very interesting two years in Wisconsin politics from the defeat of Russ Feingold to the election and recall attempt of Governor Walker, the mess with the public worker and teacher unions and missing legislators. Along the way, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin was tapped by | Read More »
This year, there are 33 Senate seats up for election with 23 of them currently held by Democrats or independents who caucus with Democrats (Lieberman in Connecticut and Sanders in Vermont). Currently, the Democrats control the Senate by a 53-47 margin. Of the 23 Democratic seats, seven incumbents are not running while of the ten Republican held seats, four incumbents are not running. One of | Read More »
With all but a handful of states having completed their primaries to determine Senate and House races in November, it would be a good time to look at how Tea Party endorsed candidates are doing. There are still a few high profile primary elections yet to go- Massachusetts, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Additionally, there is run off election in Georgia to determine three Republican nominees | Read More »
There will be interest in Wisconsin, some of it brought on by the cry baby union loudmouths- many of them not even from Wisconsin- who seek to recall Governor Scott Walker over his much publicized fight to gain concessions from public worker unions. To recall, upon facing office, like many Governors, he faced serious fiscal problems, most of them tied to structural problems in existing | Read More »
Before looking at the Senate race in Wisconsin, there is also a Governor’s race this year. Here, Republican Scott Walker, a state lawmaker, leads Tom Barrett by 10 points in the most recent poll and by an average of about 9 points overall. This puts him on a trajectory towards a Republican victory in November. In all honesty, I know very little about Barrett | Read More »
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