Redistricting Blues: GOP holds 27 seat structural edge in assembly

Thanks to Zach and Blogging Blue for the opportunity to guest blog. I’ll be discussing election analytics with a focus on Wisconsin politics. As Blogging Blue readers know, in January Republicans will once again enjoy full control of Wisconsin state government, having retaken the State Senate earlier this month. The…

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Sen. Grothman (R) claims Obama and Baldwin probably won due to fraud. But wait, there’s more…

Republican Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) handily defeated his Democratic opponent, Tanya Lohr, in last week’s election, but apparently it wasn’t easy. Grothman took to the airwaves Thursday morning to talk about “the special interests” he was up against, including, um, the New World Order. Grothman also claimed that President Obama…

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Damn Good Advice

I haven’t seen a lot of mainstream news coverage of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s advice to president Obama following Obama’s re-election victory, so I thought I’d post it here. Seems like damn good advice to me.

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A Theory About Conservative Crapola

The whole article is a must read… Forget a nickel; I’d a sixpence for every piece of conservative crapola spin I heard in the last two months. In retrospect, it’s very revealing about they try to game the system to get places like Politico and other mainstream outfits to assume…

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Michael Steele gets catty towards Reince Priebus

From the files of, “when conservatives eat their own” comes this gem from former RNC Chair Michael Steele: Say what you want about our spending while running the RNC, at least we won elections. THAT’S what I call an ROI. http://t.co/36zrv5zB — Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) November 8, 2012

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Milwaukee Voter Turn Out a Ridiculous 87 Per Cent!

Professional GOP apologist propagandist and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel conservative favorite son, Christian Schneider, tossed off the following bit of jetsam in his analysis of Tuesday’s Presidential Election: The City of Milwaukee had a ridiculous 87% turnout rate on Tuesday… The only thing ridiculous about the Milwaukee turnout rate is the…

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President Obama’s mandate

Here’s the latest talking point(s) from conservatives: “NO Obama Does NOT Have a Mandate!” […] “He didn’t run on his record or policies…” First of all, let’s define what a mandate is. According to Merriam Webster, a mandate can be defined as, “an authorization to act given to a representative.”…

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Dear Senator Johnson, Tammy Baldwin is not an idiot

Dear Senator Ron Johnson, Tammy Baldwin is not an idiot and neither is the electorate. But when you say things like this about Senator-elect Baldwin: “Hopefully I can sit down and lay out for her my best understanding of the federal budget because they’re simply the facts…Hopefully she’ll agree with…

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Is Ted Nugent A Man of His Word?

At the 2012 NRA convention last April Ted Nugent, the guitar playin’, gun totin’, venom spewin’ rocker very aptly nicknamed, ” The Motor City Madman ” told NRA convention attendees that if Obama was re-elected president in November he’d either be dead or in jail by the same time next year, April, 2013. Memo…

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How Waukesha County saved Paul Ryan’s bacon

If you’re Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, the secretive efforts by Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature to gerrymander districts to the benefit of Republicans certainly paid dividends. Paul Ryan will still have a job, having defeated challenger Rob Zerban in his most competitive race since he first won election. What is…

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