If Only Madison was It's own House District
Would somebody please tell me again how the heck Beloit ended-up in the same congressional district as Madison, or the Dells?
So much for communities of interest.
The best thing about Wisconsin's lack of population growth is, when we lose yet another House seat to redistricting, Dave Magnum will finally win this seat.
Quotes like the above score big points with the the surrounding Ag community.In 2004, Baldwin pledged to reduce the amount of out state donations to her campaign. However, she broke her promise and raised more out state donations in 2004 than she did in 2002, according to the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics (www.opensecrets.org).
Magnum pointed out that California, one of Baldwin's favorite fundraising haunts, competes aggressively with Wisconsin for the title of America's Dairyland
posted by Slide @ 11:33 AM
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Simple three-part answer:
- It's heavily unionized and Democratic, thus a good pick-up for Tammy Baldwin.
- Paul Ryan didn't want to deal with 4 union towns anymore (he still has his hometown of Janesville, Racine and Kenosha though).
What really doesn't make sense is how Jefferson County is split up between 3 Congressional disricts.
Somehow forgot item #3 - Beloit's more on the left side (how appropriate that the west side is Baldwin's district) of the dividing line down the middle of Rock County than the right, and like Janesville (which is more on the right side), the Congresscritters that drew the map didn't really want to divide the cities into two.
It is simpler than that;
Beloit = Democrat; thus, given to Tammy Baldwin-D.
Waukesha County = Republican; thus, given to Paul Ryan-R
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