Wisconsin politics roundup

President Obama took Wisconsin 53-46%, slightly down from 2008 when he took the state 56-42%.  As you can see, there was a swing in several counties but not enough to top the Madison and Milwaukee vote.  Southwestern Wisconsin still is firmly liberal.  My main theory is that there is no alternative media on this side of the state, we have no Charlie Sykes or someone to counter the all left media. 

2012 Obama: 1,597,201
2008 Obama: 1,677,211

2012 Romney: 1,395,499
2008 McCain: 1,262,393

2008

2012

Also Tammy Baldwin took the open Senate seat by a slightly smaller margin losing 51-46%, but actually getting 32,000 less votes than Romney.  Baldwin's a lunatic, but Thompson was just a bad choice for a candidate.  I suppose the logic was, Obama will carry the state so who could we throw on there that can get moderates to cross.  I think the ads against Thompson were pretty effective though.  It is pretty hard to win an open senate race when a Democrat wins the presidency.  That said, in six years she will have to defend a mid-term election where a fiscal conservative could win especially since the debt will continue to grow until then. 

Honestly here though, nothing lost.  Both the Senate seat and the presidency were the Democrats to lose.  I know it seems like the end of the world, but we need to put it in perspective.  And for the record, abortion numbers under GW Bush were basically the same as under Obama's presidency.  Ron Paul was the only one on the campaign who actually committed to real action here, ready to sign an executive order outlawing the procedure immediately.  Everyone else plays the Supreme Court justice game, and as we saw with Justice Roberts flop on the Obamacare insurance mandate, it is fools gold.  Point being, if all a pro-life citizen does is vote pro-life - they do nothing.  We must change the culture to change the laws, and to do that we must pray and pray publicly. 

And I notice that basically Steve's prediction was dead on. 

A very interesting quote Annysa found:

Four years ago, Barack Obama carried Catholics while losing Protestants in the Badger State. But the Catholic population of Wisconsin has been falling while the Protestant population has become more evangelical. Although Wisconsin has voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in each of the last six elections, it’s a close call in 2012, and this helps explain why.

That is completely accurate.  A great example are WELS Lutherans as opposed to Minnesota's ELCA.  If we had a Wisconsin Catholic Conference on the side of social conservatives, I would expect them to work with the evangelical community more.  But as we have seen, WCC has been used by liberals to neutralize social conservatives. 

The consolation:

Wisconsin house Republicans including Paul Ryan and Sean Duffy retain their seats handily.   Democrats do pick up Baldwin's seat in Congress, but it's a zero gain from their perspective. 

And, the bright spot

Republicans recaptured the state Senate on Tuesday, once again giving them the complete control of state government that they used to enact sweeping changes in the last legislative session.

But their margin and sway in the upper house remained unclear because of a tight race in east central Wisconsin. Whether Republicans have a one- or two-seat majority in the Senate is pivotal because GOP Sen. Dale Schultz of Richland Center has bucked his party on some key issues. Among the issues Republicans hope to take up in the next two-year session is loosening mining regulations - a proposal Schultz has resisted.

The fight over the Senate comes down to the race between Sen. Jessica King (D-Oshkosh) and Fond du Lac Common Council President Rick Gudex.

And I will conclude with Wiggy's quote of the day(he also posted Mozart's Requiem)

This election obviously oversampled Democrats
— Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) November 7, 2012