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Paul Ryan's Wisconsin Neighbors Supported His Opponents ["The Unkindest Cut of All"?]
LA Times ^ | November 14, 2012 | Bob Secter

Posted on 11/14/2012 6:21:53 PM PST by Steelfish

Paul Ryan's Wisconsin Neighbors Supported His Opponents

By Bob Secter. November 14, 2012 In the closing days of his vice-presidential run, Paul D. Ryan sought to connect with voters in small- and medium-sized towns across Ohio by repeatedly telling them how much their community had in common with his own hometown of Janesville, Wis.

Now, post-election, the Wisconsin congressman is blaming his Republican ticket loss with presidential contender Mitt Romney on a huge turnout of urban voters for President Obama.

One flaw in that analysis may be that election results indicate the Romney-Ryan ticket didn’t exactly connect with the voters back in Janesville, either.

A struggling blue-collar manufacturing town of 63,575, Janesville lies on the eastern edge of Rock County, Wis., and unofficial election tabulations from the county clerk there show that only 37% of Ryan’s hometown neighbors voted for him and his running mate. Meanwhile, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden got 62% of the Janesville vote.

The results were even slightly worse for Ryan from his own polling place at the Hedberg Public Library. Out of 1,428 votes cast there, 65% went for Obama-Biden and just 34% for Romney-Ryan.

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1 posted on 11/14/2012 6:21:55 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Since Obama won over Romney-Ryan among single women with a devastating 68%-30% margin one must assume that there are a lot, quite a lot of single women in Janesville.


2 posted on 11/14/2012 6:24:56 PM PST by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Steelfish

Well, if those “struggling blue collar” workers think they’ll get any help from the Marxist trash in the White House, they’re fools.


3 posted on 11/14/2012 6:24:56 PM PST by CatherineofAragon (The idiocracy has come home to roost. God help us.)
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To: Steelfish

Those 65% deserve everything that comes their way. Back-stabbing Judases!


4 posted on 11/14/2012 6:25:01 PM PST by Catsrus
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To: Steelfish

This is why National Parks have signs saying, “Do Not Feed The Bears”. We’ve become a nation of garbage dump bears wandering around in a trance looking for handouts. Ryan’s “neighbors” are just that, garbage dump bears.


5 posted on 11/14/2012 6:25:18 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The South's Gonna Do It Again.)
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To: Steelfish

How do those numbers compare to Obama’s performance in Janesville in 2008 and Ryan’s performance in his congressional races, including this year’s? I mean Romney doubtlessly lost his Massachusetts precinct, does that really prove anything?


6 posted on 11/14/2012 6:26:01 PM PST by Numbers Guy
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To: Steelfish

Janesville’s always been democrat. It’s union city.


7 posted on 11/14/2012 6:26:27 PM PST by Darren McCarty (If most people were more than keyboard warriors, we might have won the election)
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To: Steelfish

Nixon, Reagan and Bush Jr. were able to connect with blue collar voters. Seems Mitt had problems in this department.


8 posted on 11/14/2012 6:27:17 PM PST by Arthurio
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To: Darren McCarty

AKA Starnesville


9 posted on 11/14/2012 6:27:36 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Mitt’s economic vision made more sense to me, but I wonder if all the lying negprop took its toll.


10 posted on 11/14/2012 6:28:43 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: Steelfish

People who think like domestic pets can always be counted on to vote for Democrats.


11 posted on 11/14/2012 6:28:47 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("I am the master of my fate ... I am the captain of my soul.")
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To: Steelfish

Wisconsin is a liberal state in a liberal country. It’s not surprising WI went for Obama.


12 posted on 11/14/2012 6:28:47 PM PST by ScottinVA (I've never been more disgusted with American voters.)
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To: Alberta's Child

My house cats beg to object to that insulting comparison.


13 posted on 11/14/2012 6:29:41 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: Numbers Guy

Belmont MA. has always been a hotbed of Barking Moonbats.
Might as well be in the people’s republic of cambridge, Belmont is just a tad bit cheaper.


14 posted on 11/14/2012 6:30:00 PM PST by acapesket
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To: Steelfish

That explains why Wisconsin wasn’t even close. The blue collar worker that even votes for Paul Ryan rejected Romney/Ryan. Shows why so many of us were anybody but Romney in the primary. He just didn’t play with the critical swing vote. This despite a pretty decent performance down the stretch.

This election just reinforced my views on the wizards of smart in the DC political scene on the right. Incompetent, wrong, out of touch, and failures. They show it every time, without fail. Whoever builds a highly competent team of outsiders is the guy to beat next time. They need to bring their own team of all-stars like Clinton, Bush and Obama.


15 posted on 11/14/2012 6:30:06 PM PST by ilgipper (Obama supporters are comprised of the uninformed & the ill-informed)
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To: Steelfish

If Romney/Ryan did not connect, where did all the crowds at the campaign events come from? Vote fraud was the Rats friend.


16 posted on 11/14/2012 6:30:22 PM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: HiTech RedNeck

They’re obviously people, then — not domestic pets. LOL.


17 posted on 11/14/2012 6:30:59 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("I am the master of my fate ... I am the captain of my soul.")
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To: Lion Den Dan

BIG LEAGUE VOTER FRAUD!!


18 posted on 11/14/2012 6:33:03 PM PST by acapesket
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To: Darren McCarty

Yes, good catch. There used to be some sort of auto plant there. If it is a GM plant that tells the sorry tale.


19 posted on 11/14/2012 6:33:29 PM PST by robowombat
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To: Lion Den Dan

Even a crowd of 40,000-50,000 people isn’t a very good indication of the election results in a state like Wisconsin where more than 3 million votes are cast.


20 posted on 11/14/2012 6:38:28 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("I am the master of my fate ... I am the captain of my soul.")
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