[cotton1706]

I hope Walker is resoundingly reelected and Dayton is thrown out!

[geologist]

This is an interesting article. Funny how it seems to rarely if ever noticed that conservative principles work and liberal/progressive principles (contradiction in terms), do not work. Human nature left to its own devices always overdoes everything, spending too much and saving too little and not preserving capital for future improvements, needs. etc. etc.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Wisconsin and Minnesota election results compared.

FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.

[UB355]

WI has the Packers, MN has the Viqueens.

[cherry]

listen people.....to any of you voting for third party, you are actually voting in more rats...some of you voted for the Constitutional party candidate back in 2008 and you GAVE the election to an avowed leftist, Frankin...

time and again you usher in the worst....you voted perot and you gave us Clintoon....

and some of you just couldn't vote Romney so you voted for bammmmey again....doesn't matter if you just stayed home or voted third party....a vote NOT for Romney was a vote for the faker in chief....

I see it starting up again...

Christie...Rubio...you think either of these guys would close down the Walter Reed cafeteria to our limbless, or paralyzed warriors ?....

you think they would have refused to help the ambassador and the Seals at Benghazi?..

..you think our Seal Team would have been shot out of the sky suspiciously?...

[Aevery_Freeman]

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[Smokeybeandog]

Whoa! Wait a minute:

StarTrib (Jun): Red v Blue in WI-MN rivalry http://is.gd/zfgKeM
“Best for Bsns”: Chamber of Commerce: MN 14, WI 42
“Best for Bsns”: Forbes: MN 20, WI 44

MN Housing Starts (adj annual thru Q1 2013): up 7.5%
WI Housing Starts (adj annual thru Q1 2013): down 26.7%

MN Foreclosures: 1.6% (incl 5.8% subprime) thru Q1 2013
MN Foreclosures: 2.7% (incl 10.1% subprime) thru Q1 2013

MN: Since Feb 2010, private sector employment has grown by 6.8%.
WI: Since Feb 2010, private sector employment has grown by 4.5%.

MN Unemployment Rate: 2010, 7.3%; 2013, 5.2% || -2.1%
WI Unemployment Rate: 2010, 8.4%; 2013, 6.8% || -1.6%

MN Poverty Rate: 2007, 9.3%; 2011, 10.0% || +.7%
WI Poverty Rate: 2007, 11%; 2011, 13.1% || +2.1%

MN Uninsured: 2007, 8.0%; 2011, 9.2% || +1.2%
WI Uninsured: 2007, 8.0%; 2011, 10.4% || +2.4%

Census QuickStats http://is.gd/zqFHLG Select-A-State
Congress Joint Economic Committee State-by-State http://is.gd/hEqqv6

JULY Update: MN v WI: JULY Jobs Estimates: Unempl: MN 5.2%, WI, 6.8%, US 7.4%; Added: MN 4300; WI 1800; Growth Rate: MN 2.6%; WI 1.4%; US 1.7%

DirigoBlue: Why Data & Perspective Matters: MN v WI, A tale of two realities http://is.gd/rVi1zT how Jankowski (”Why Elections Matter: A Tale of Two States”) gets it wrong

Go Vikings!