Why Wisconsin Is the Most Fascinating State in American Politics

Aug 13, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -60% Very Liberal

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  • Politician Portrayal

    96% Negative

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"On Tuesday, the state held its primaries, and the results were classic Wisconsin: Republicans chose Tim Michels, a Trump-aligned Stop-the-Steal guy, as their nominee to face Gov. Tony Evers, the Democratic incumbent, over Rebecca Kleefisch, the establishment favorite."
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-2% Liberal
"On Tuesday, the state held its primaries, and the results were classic Wisconsin: Republicans chose Tim Michels, a Trump-aligned Stop-the-Steal guy, as their nominee to face Gov. Tony Evers, the Democratic incumbent, over Rebecca Kleefisch, the establishment favorite."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Scott Walker was raised in this environment."
Positive
16% Conservative
"It's where two once-powerful senators, Joseph McCarthy and Robert La Follette, defined two of the major themes we still see playing out today -- what the historian Richard Hofstadter called the paranoid style, in McCarthy's case, and progressivism in La Follette's."
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8% Conservative
"It's where two once-powerful senators, Joseph McCarthy and Robert La Follette, defined two of the major themes we still see playing out today -- what the historian Richard Hofstadter called the paranoid style, in McCarthy's case, and progressivism in La Follette's."
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8% Conservative
"It's where two once-powerful senators, Joseph McCarthy and Robert La Follette, defined two of the major themes we still see playing out today -- what the historian Richard Hofstadter called the paranoid style, in McCarthy's case, and progressivism in La Follette's."
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8% Conservative
"Around 9 p.m., Senator Ron Wyden, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, walked into the press gallery for a briefing with reporters."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Historians privately warned President Biden recently that the current moment in America is among the most perilous in modern history for democratic governance, The Washington Post reports."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Well, it helped that Michels had more than $10 million of his own cash to invest in his race, and Adam Steen, the Trump-backed challenger to Vos, didn't have enough money for even one paid staff member."
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-6% Liberal
"Four years later, McCarthy used his new platform to begin his infamous anti-communist crusade -- persecuting supposed communists inside the federal government, Hollywood and the liberal intelligentsia across the country."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"A tall man, Wyden was visibly uncomfortable in a sofa chair that was low to the ground."
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-18% Liberal
"Much of the state remains rural and conservative -- McCarthy and Trump country."
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-20% Liberal
"Much of the state remains rural and conservative -- McCarthy and Trump country."
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-20% Liberal
"Robin Vos, the Assembly speaker who has tilted to the right on election issues but who refused to help Trump overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, barely held on to his seat."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"McCarthy won his Senate seat in the 1946 midterms amid a backlash against President Harry Truman, who was struggling to control the soaring price of meat as the country adjusted to a peacetime economy."
Positive
14% Conservative
"McCarthy won his Senate seat in the 1946 midterms amid a backlash against President Harry Truman, who was struggling to control the soaring price of meat as the country adjusted to a peacetime economy."
Positive
14% Conservative
"And as in much of the United States, even smaller Wisconsin cities like Green Bay (the home of the Packers), Eau Claire (a fiercely contested political battleground), Janesville (the home of Paul Ryan, the former House speaker), Kenosha (the hometown of Reince Priebus, the sometime ally and former aide to Donald Trump) and Oshkosh (the home and political base of Senator Ron Johnson) have gone blue in recent decades."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"And as in much of the United States, even smaller Wisconsin cities like Green Bay (the home of the Packers), Eau Claire (a fiercely contested political battleground), Janesville (the home of Paul Ryan, the former House speaker), Kenosha (the hometown of Reince Priebus, the sometime ally and former aide to Donald Trump) and Oshkosh (the home and political base of Senator Ron Johnson) have gone blue in recent decades."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"And as in much of the United States, even smaller Wisconsin cities like Green Bay (the home of the Packers), Eau Claire (a fiercely contested political battleground), Janesville (the home of Paul Ryan, the former House speaker), Kenosha (the hometown of Reince Priebus, the sometime ally and former aide to Donald Trump) and Oshkosh (the home and political base of Senator Ron Johnson) have gone blue in recent decades."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"I'm thinking of developments like the Democrats' attempted recall of Gov. Scott Walker in 2012, his crackdown on union power, and the Legislature's efforts to curtail the power of Tony Evers, the current governor."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"I'm thinking of developments like the Democrats' attempted recall of Gov. Scott Walker in 2012, his crackdown on union power, and the Legislature's efforts to curtail the power of Tony Evers, the current governor."
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-4% Liberal

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