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  1. In ten years, after repeated destruction of the state by the GOP and their failed jobs policy, Wisconsin is going to find itself so far behind the rest of the Midwest it won't even be funny. Yes, Mississippi of the north will fit the bill and while a few corporations will have been lured to wI with hefty tax breaks and low wage jobs, but the reality is instead of being a right to work state, we are going to be a pay to play state, where companies know they will only get a fair shake if they play the GOP game. In the end, a few corporations and a few politicians do really well financially while the rest of the state suffers. Outside of retirement, nothing looks positive about general outlook on this state with the GOP chokehold at the state level...
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  2. Cheating is the only way republicans can win. But the tide has turned. Scotty will learn this in two years when he's voted out.
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  3. The article should be on the Opinion section of the JS-DNC, shouldn't it?
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  4. “Five of the state’s eight U.S. House seats voted Republican for president in a year when Republicans lost that election by 6.8 points statewide.”

    It’s clearly not just Wisconsin. Nationwide Democratic candidates for the House received 1.1 million more votes than Republican candidates, yet won 33 fewer seats.
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  5. Dems did the same in redistricting last time. Did the JS so finely dissect it then? NO. Meat for the maggots article.
  6. Another instance where the left would prefer we don't follow the State Constitution.
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  7. Sorry Gilbert we really aren't that stupid. The vast majority of counties have voted Republican for quite some time now. It's the low income/liberal population centers of Milwaukee, Madison, Racine and Kenosha that vote for more handouts (Democratic). It is really not a surprise that when you get away from those areas the rest of the state is Republican and should be represented that way. Naturally, If the higher density areas are Democratic and the rest of the state is Republican, the Repubs will hold a majority of the offices.
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  8. Gotta give it to the right, packing democrats into blue electoral ghettos is a winning system that guarantees they'll hold power in the the assembly and senate for years to come. Disconcerting to think how easily representative democracy can be manipulated to turn the majority into a minority, but well played by republicans nonetheless.
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  9. This is exactly why a non-partisan group should do the redistricting after the census results are given.
  10. Just look at the Racine/Kenosha area maps to see the nonsense going on by the GOP. You have them essentially splitting communities based on the demographics of the residents. Have we really come to this, where your kids can share a school together, yet you vote and have different political representatives simply because you live on the other side of the tracks...
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