One thing you have to remember about Wisconsin: Madison is a Liberal bastion in the Midwest and they certainly do not speak for all Wisconsinites. Only San Francisco rivals Madison for it’s left-leaning wackos. The rest of Wisconsin is much less liberal. In the ‘04 election, Kerry (who served in Vietnam, for those who don’t know it) won the state by a scant 11,000 votes. A recount of Wisconsin was more justified than the one they demanded for Ohio.
Not to mention the 2000 election where Gore only won by five thousand out of over two million cast. And that number included documented cases of voter fraud in Milwaukee and admissions of complicity by Dem operatives like Carol Millikin or Gilligan of New York. She bragged about passing out smokes to street people in Sudsville to vote Dem.