Posted on 10/15/2020 8:35:21 AM PDT by bort
Some very good news:
In the heavily red "WOW" counties in Wisconsin, roughly 30% of the early voters are either "new" voters or "infrequent" voters, compared to roughly 25% of the voters in Dane County and Milwaukee.
Significance? The WOW counties surround Milwaukee and fueled the surge of Scott Walker and the Wisconsin Republican machine for almost two decades. Trump lost ground in these suburban counties in 2016, but the early numbers appear to show strong Republican-leaning turnout.
By contrast, Dane Co. is the home of the U. of Wisconsin (Madison), a huge, liberal school. Milwaukee obviously has Marquette U. and other schools and is a heavily Democrat area. That Republicans are turning out more "new" and "infrequent" voters than a college town and a Democrat city is highly significant. (continued)
I've been known to do that to great hilarity...
:-)
Do we know if the new voters are R’s or D’s?
Since Wisconsin doesn’t register by Party, we cannot know for certain whether they are “R” or “D.” We can make guesses based on which counties they register in though and also the data analysts like Target Smart.
“10/01/16: 3,505,062 registered voters
10/01/20: 3,583,804 registered voters”
I’m optimistic on WI.
I wouldn’t have guessed that there would be fewer registered voters in WI. With absolutely no research I suspect it may be the result of a purge of voter rolls.
By the enormous amounts of Trump signs here in Wisconsin I’m hoping by the grace of God Trump wins big.
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